Papa, PhD : : Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy / / ed. by Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Reynolds, Ralph Savarese.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Augspurger, Mike,; Bane, Charles,; Barnhurst, Kevin G.,; Bryant, John,; Campbell, David G.,; Carpenter, Stanford W.,; Davis, Lennard J.,; Domini, John,; Du Plessis, Eric H.,; Gabbard, Chris,; Gelfer, Joseph,; Gray, Robert,; Haven Blake, David,; Hazucha, Andrew,; Irvine, Colin,; Kumar, Amitava,; Leak, Jeffrey B.,; Man Tsao, Ting,; Marsiglio, William,; Mayer, Robert,; McCullough, Gary H.,; Montgomery, Mark,; Orfalea, Gregory,; Osteen, Mark,; Reeve, F.D.,; Savarese, Ralph James,; Simmons, J. Aaron,; Strauber, Ira L.,; Thompson, Jason,; Vernon, Alex,; Walker, Jerald,; Wells, John W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Marotte, Mary Ruth,; Reynolds, Paige,; Savarese, Ralph,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

It is not easy raising a family and balancing work and personal commitments in academia, regardless of gender. Parents endure the stress of making tenure with the demands of life with children. While women's careers are derailed more often than men's as a result of such competing pressures, fathers, too, experience conflicting feelings about work and home, making parenting ever more challenging. In Papa, PhD, Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese bring together a group contributors from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. They are white, black, South Asian, Asian, and Arab. They are gay and straight, married and divorced. They are tenured and untenured, at research-one universities and at community colleges. Some write at the beginning of their careers, others at the end. 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. 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. 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. What resonates is the astonishing range of forms that fatherhood can take as these dads challenge traditional norms by actively questioning the status quo.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Thinking Stiffs: An Introduction -- Part One. Fathers in Theory, Fathers in Praxis: Merging Work and Parenting -- Disney Dad -- Gaining a Daughter: A Father's Transgendered Tale -- Gifts from the Sea -- The Luck of the Irish -- Shifting the Tectonic Plates of Academia -- Hair-Raising Experiences -- A River Runs through It: Queer Theory and Fatherhood -- On Writing and Rearing -- Doing Things with Words -- On Fecundity, Fidelity, and Expectation: Reflections on Philosophy and Fatherhood -- Sheathing the Sword -- Part Two. Family Made: The Difference of Alternative or Delayed Fatherhood -- Weighed but Found Wanting: Ten Years of Being Measured and Divided -- Vespers, Matins, Lauds: The Life of a Liberal Arts College Professor -- How White Was My Prairie -- Meniscus -- Once Was Lost -- Shared Attention: Hearing Cameron's Voice -- Accidental Academic, Deliberate Dad -- Late Fatherhood among the Baptists -- Being a Dad, Studying Fathers: A Personal Reflection -- Single Dad in Academia: Fatherhood and the Redemption of Scholarship -- Superheroes -- Part Three. Forging New Fatherhoods: Ambitions Altered and Transformed -- Maybe It Is Just Math: Fatherhood and Disease in Academia -- Dreaming of Direction: Reconciling Fatherhood and Ambition -- Making a Home for Family and Scholarship -- Change Is Here, but We Need to Talk about It: Reflections on Black Fatherhood in the Academy -- Vocabularies and Their Subversion: A Reminiscence -- Balancing Diapers and a Doctorate: The Adventures of a Single Dad in Grad School -- It's a Chapter-Book, Huh: Teaching, Writing, and Early Fatherhood -- Pitcher This: An Academic Dad's Award-Winning Attempt to Be in Two Places at Once -- Odd Quirks -- The Precarious Private Life of Professor Father Fiction Chef and Other Possible Poignancies -- Notes on Contributors