The Professors' Wives' Club by Joanne Rendell

Weighed but Found Wanting: Ten Years of Being Measured and Divided by Robert Mayer Part Two: Family Made: The Difference of Alternative or Delayed Fatherhood On Fecundity, Fidelity, and Expectation: Reflections on Philosophy and Fatherhood by J. On Writing and Rearing by David Haven Blakeĭoing Things with Words by Ira L. WellsĪ River Runs through It: Queer Theory and Fatherhood by Joseph Gelfer Shifting the Tectonic Plates of Academia by Jerald Walker Gaining a Daughter: A Father’s Transgendered Tale by Lennard J. Part One: Fathers in Theory, Fathers in Praxis: Merging Work and Parenting What resonates is the astonishing range of forms that fatherhood can take as these dads challenge traditional norms by actively questioning the status quo.” 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. 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. 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. Some write at the beginning of their careers, others at the end. They are tenured and untenured, at research-one universities and at community colleges. They are gay and straight, married and divorced. “ are white, black, South Asian, Asian, and Arab. Two years later, the conversation unfolds in the pages of this book:

The book came about when Mary Ruth, a former colleague of Caroline’s at Stanford (the two were pregnant together), organized a Mama, PhD colloquium at her school and the participants wanted to discuss how the issues raised in the book were the same or differed for men. The anthology, edited by Mary Ruth Marrotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese, is a terrific and varied collection of essays by men at different stages of their fatherhood and academic careers. We’re delighted to announce that Papa, PhD: Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy is now available from Rutgers University Press.

The Professors' Wives' Club by Joanne Rendell