Papa, PhD

Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy

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ID19917367
AuthorsRalph James Savarese
EditorsMary Ruth Marotte, Paige Reynolds (0000-0002-6325-5444), Ralph Savarese
Year2019
Pages272
Publication date2019-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePapa, PhD (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRutgers University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.36019/9780813550206
OpenAlexW2617922846
ISBN9780813550206
Open LibraryOL33998179M
LanguageEN
Citations received5

It is not easy raising a family and balancing work and personal commitments in academia, regardless of gender. Parents endure the stress of making tenure with the demands of life with children. While women's careers are derailed more often than men's as a result of such competing pressures, fathers, too, experience conflicting feelings about work and home, making parenting ever more challenging. In Papa, PhD, Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese bring together a group contributors from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. They are white, black, South Asian, Asian, and Arab. They are gay and straight, married and divorced. They are tenured and untenured, at research-one universities and at community colleges. Some write at the beginning of their careers, others at the end. But, perhaps most important they do not look back-they look forward to new parental and professional synergies as they reflect on what it means to be a father in the academy. The fathers writing in Papa, PhD seek to expand their children's horizons, giving them the gifts of better topic sentences and a cosmopolitan sensibility. They seriously consider the implications of gender theory and queer theory-even Marxist theory-and make relevant theoretical connections between their work and the less abstract, more pragmatic, world of fathering. What resonates is the astonishing range of forms that fatherhood can take as these dads challenge traditional norms by actively questioning the status quo

Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · History · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Father and child · Fatherhood

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