Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0001-7291-5056
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
This piece offers autoethnographic reflections on crossroads to which many academics come: whether to seek (or postpone or avoid) parenthood and when. The author deeply explores the personal (her own trajectories from daughter and sister to potential mother and from graduate student to full professor) in order to reflect on structural constraints associated with graduate education, the academic job market, and institutional policies and politics.
Published In
Tillmann, L. M. (2011, January-February). Labor pains in the academy. Academe. Retrieved from: https://www.aaup.org/article/labor-pains-academy#.Wa0wqtOGPOY.
Publication Title
Academe
ISSN
01902946
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708611401338
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