Full Description
Issues related to motherhood affect the experiences of women within the academy profoundly and inequitably. Music education--a field in which caring is innately embedded, and which grapples with field-specific musically related gender stereotypes and roles--presents an especially intriguing context for the exploration of motherhood and academia. In this edited collection, Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish and Bridget Sweet include both scholarly and narrative perspectives on motherhood from a diverse group of authors, delving into a variety of topics such as theoretical perspectives on the intersections between motherhood and the academy, ways in which mothers in music education experience the promotion and tenure system, intersectional experiences of motherhood, motherhood at various stages of academic work in the field, and suggestions for actionable change within the academy.
In amplifying the voices of mothers in the profession, Motherhood in the Music Education Academy provides a scholarly context for motherhood experiences in order to expand notions of motherhood, to embrace and celebrate often invisible caring work that women do in the music education academy, and to ultimately enhance the visibility of mothers in music education while provoking action that supports productive and positive change.
Contents
Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish: Motherhood in the Music Education Academy: An Introduction
Section 1. Framing Motherhood Conceptually in the Music Academy
1: Elizabeth Cassidy Parker: Re-Centering Care: Role Conflict and Parenting in Music Education
1.1: Ashley D. Allen: A Moment to Pause
2: Women, Life, Freedom: Stories of Mothering, Motherhood, and Non-motherhood
3: Vanessa L. Bond: Work-Family Enrichment: Viewing Academic Motherhood from an Asset Perspective
3.1: Angela M. Munroe: A Moment to Pause
Section 2. Blending the Scholarly and the Personal: Essays on Motherhood
4: Lisa Huisman Koops: Positive Personal Impact of Structural University Support on Faculty Motherhood
4.1: Debbie Rohwer: A Moment to Pause
5: Catheryn Shaw Foster and Tami J. Draves: Learning to be Visible Without Saying "I'm Sorry"
6: Whitney Mayo: Navigating Identities: Becoming a Mother and a Doctoral Student
6.1: Libby Hearn: A Moment to Pause
7: Elizabeth W. Chappell: Navigating the Academy Through my Mother-lens: Caring as a Subversive Act
8: Rachel Grimsby and Ashley D. Allen: Re-emergence of Pre-pandemic Issues for Women in Academia: Music Teacher Educator Mothers' Perspectives
8.1: Bridget Sweet: A Moment to Pause
Section 3. Intersectional Experiences of Motherhood
9: Jacqueline C. Henninger: The Life of a Single Mom of Color in Academia: Challenges and Rewards
10: Erin M. Hansen: "So, Who's the Real Mother?": Reflections of a Queer Music Teacher Educator
10.1: Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish: A Moment to Pause
11: Linda Thornton and Layla Thornton: Perspectives of a Mother and Daughter on Growing Up in the Academy
11.1: Linda Thornton and Layla Thornton (19): A Moment to Pause
12: Shawn L. O'Connor: Music Education, Motherhood, and Mental Health
Section 4. Considering Different Stages of Motherhood and the Academic Journey
13: Michquelena Potlunas Ferguson: Pregnancy, the Academy, and Marching Band: An Autoethnography
13.1: Bridget Sweet: A Moment to Pause
14: Vanessa L. Bond: The Countdown of Two Clocks: Pregnancy and the Pre-Tenure Years
15: Christa R. Kuebel: Reflecting and Reimagining: Entering Motherhood at Mid-Career
15.1: Robin Giebelhausen: A Moment to Pause
Debbie Rohwer: Memories from an Empty Nester Professor
17: Janet Revell Barrett: The Courses of a Scholarly Life
17.1: Erin Hansen: A Moment to Pause
18: Robin Giebelhausen: Hatchlin' Hatchling(s): Experiences of Becoming a Stepmother, Mother, and Early Childhood Music Coordinator
19: Libby Hearn: A Season of Loss and Learning: Becoming a (Single) Mother Scholar
20: Eve E. Harwood: The Question
20.1: Jacqueline C. Henninger: A Moment to Pause
21: Angela M. Munroe: Parenting in Academia: Balance or Permeable Boundaries
22: Raychl Smith: Creating Boundaries as a Mothering Professor
23: Jessica Vaughan-Marra and Melissa Baughman: Navigating Motherhood within Dual-Career Academic Families
23.1: Elizabeth Cassidy Parker: A Moment to Pause
Section 6. Coda
Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish: Considering the Path Forward
