Beyond Blame: Challenging the Myths and Inequities That

Compromise Academic Mothers’ Success

by BettyAnn Martin 9

Maybe, Maybe … PhD Baby?

by Stephanie Chesser 23

Experiments in Voice and Visibility: Creating Space for

Graduate Student (Single) Mothers in the Mother-Free Space

of the Academy

by Summer R. Cunningham 37

“It’s a Choice”: Graduate Student Mothers’ Sense of Agency

in Decision Making

by Elizabeth R. Paré 52

Mothering and Professing in the Ivory Tower: Supporting

Graduate Student Mothers

by Barbara A. W. Eversole, Cindy L. Crowder,

Siham Lekchiri, Amber Clark and Toni S. Zimmerman 65

Next, the Campus Interview: An Elegy for Graduate

Student Mothers

by Susan Rotolo 81

Moving My Brain to Canada: Motherhood and International

Mobility as an Academic Career Requirement

by Florence Pasche Guignardo 93

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement

(Re)Turning to Motherhood and Academe:

An Autoethnographic Account

by Talia Esnard 109

Interrogating the Language of Diversity in Academe:

Motherhood and Parenting in View

by Maki Motapanyane and Kit Dobson 125

Motherhood in U.S. Academe: How the Presence of Women

Disrupts the Ideal Worker Model in Colleges and Universities

by Kristin Marsh 140

Envisioning a Different Journey:

Negotiating Academe with aChronically Ill Child

by Kirsten Isgro 155

Poverty and Power: The Moral Regulation of

Single Mother University Students

by Laurel O’Gorman 164

Initiative to Empower Women Faculty Members at University of

Ottawa: Mothers See the Value in Participation

by Catherine Mavriplis and Françoise Moreau-Johnson 179

Folio

Editor’s Notes

by Jane Satterfield 194

If, in October

by Marilyn Taylor 197

The Boy on the Plane

by Marilyn Taylor 198

At the End

by Marilyn Taylor 199

Sestina for My Mother

by Marilyn Taylor 201

In Other News

by Marilyn Taylor 203

The Ice Cave

by Marilyn Taylor 204

To the Mother of a Dead Marine

by Marilyn Taylor 205

Family Picnic

by Marilyn Taylor 206

Tercets from the Train

by Marilyn Taylor 207

Open Letter to Grownup Kids Who Call Home

by Marilyn Taylor 209

Mother as Poet / Poet as Mother

by Marilyn Taylor 210

Not Exactly as Planned: A Memoir of Adoption, Secrets and Abiding Love

reviewed by Bruna Alvarez 212

Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood

reviewed by Maya E. Bhave 214

Anybody’s Miracle

reviewed by Rita Bode 215

Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood

reviewed by Judith Lakämper 217

This Is What a Feminist Slut Looks Like: Perspectives on the

SlutWalk Movement

reviewed by Virginia Little 219

In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy

reviewed by Kristin Marsh 221

Mothers of the Nation: Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance,

Reclaiming and Recovery

reviewed by Naomi M. McPherson 223

Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering

reviewed by Rachel O’Donnell 226

Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood

reviewed by Lorinda Peterson 228

Stay-at-Home Mothers: Dialogues and Debates

reviewed by Amanda Watson 230

The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood

reviewed by Laurie Kruk 233

Motherhood and Infertility in Ireland:

Understanding the Presence of Absence

reviewed by Abigail L. Palko 235

Twice in a Blue Moon

reviewed by Dorsía Smith Silva 237

Contributor Notes 239