Academic mothers finding rhyme and reason

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12232256
AutoresVenitha Pillay (0000-0003-1463-5878, University of Pretoria, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume21
Fascículo5
Páginas501-515
Data de publicação2008-12-05
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGender and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09540250802467927
OpenAlexW2014970615
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas21

In this paper I argue that the ‘balancing two lives’ approach to motherhood and work has particular limitations for academic mothers. I interrogate the perceived oppositionalities in being mother, traditionally associated with nurturing, love and emotion, and being academic, traditionally associated with reason and logic. My purpose is to show that motherhood needs to be inscribed into intellectual work if the academic mother is to find a wholeness of self. A related point I make is that separating motherhood from intellectual work is tantamount to abandoning thinking and intellectual labour to be the preserve of a masculine terrain from which motherhood, emotion, love, nurturing is excluded

Developmental psychology · Inscribed figure · Linguistics · Point (geometry · Rhyme · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology