Full Description
This book presents interdisciplinary empirical studies about the COVID-19 pandemic's complex influence on the professional, personal, and family lives of mothers in academia or "MotherScholars". It calls attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education's responses to it highlight the historical, societal, and cultural inequities between diverse groups of MotherScholars.
The volume represents diverse ethnicities (e.g., Black, Pinay, Asian American), an assortment of disciplines (e.g., sociology, education, psychology, Asian American studies, etc.), and a variety of methodologies (e.g., collaborative autoethnography, photovoice, kuwentos, etc.) to share diverse narratives linked through an identity and pursuit of MotherScholarhood. It addresses the wide range of pressures and influences affecting mothers in academia and tackles the additional burdens and prejudices MotherScholars with marginalized cultural and religious identities face. Taken as a whole, the book presents important and complementary findings through different MotherScholar perspectives, which underscore the complexity of their experience and how it was impacted by a global pandemic.
MotherScholaring During the COVID-19 Pandemic will be a key resource for researchers and practitioners of education studies, educational research, educational leadership and policy, educational administration, gender studies, and women's studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education.
Contents
Introduction 1. The Liminality of Multinational Muslim MotherScholaring during COVID-19: A Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography 2. "Why Do We Have to Go Away?": A Beginning Exploration into the Lived Experience of Three MotherScholars Imagining Possibilities in the Time of COVID-19 3. Love on the Front Lines: Asian American Motherscholars Resisting Dehumanizing Contexts through Humanizing Collectivity 4.Raising Love in A Time of Lovelessness: Kuwentos of Pinayist Motherscholars Resisting COVID-19's Anti-Asian Racism 5. Remember. (Re)member. Re-member: Theorizing the Process of Healing, Sustaining, and Transforming as MotherScholars 6.The No-Time Bind: Examining the Experience of Faculty Mothers During the COVID-19 Lockdown 7. Crystalizing Layered Approaches to MotherScholar Expressions in COVID-19: A Photovoice and Autoethnographic Study Commentary: Birthing the Motherscholar and Motherscholarship
