Trust me, if Mom is a scholar, she wants books for Mother’s Day (May 13), and if you are wise, you will get them here on DiverseBooks.net at sizeable discounts. Our site offers a variety of titles related to motherhood and/or womanhood, including some about women involved in the arts, civil rights, academics and literature. Here are a few selections from our publishers, including some previously summarized here:
Establishing the Family-Friendly Campus, edited by Jaime Lester, Margaret Sallee, $71.95, (List Price $79.95), Stylus, January 2009, ISBN: 9781579223304, pp. 200.
This book covers a range of issues related to creating “family-friendly” campuses and examines the reasons that women with children leave faculty positions at disproportionately higher rates than men do. It also looks at the pressures women face in combining motherhood and careers in academia, and it documents programs and policies some institutions are using to reverse the trends by attracting and retaining academics who parent.
Academic Mothers, by Venitha Pillay, $26.35 (List Price: $31), Trentham Books, September 2007, ISBN 9781858564173, pp. 206.
Dr Venitha Pillay, a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, explores the lives of three white South African women in their struggle to combine motherhood with their academic careers. She challenges notions that relegate women to the realm of emotion and nurturance, while reserving the life of the intellect for men, and examines how women in academia straddle both worlds. See Review from Diverseeducation.com https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15086856/telling-her-story
