Archive for the 'Reading List' Category
New Column
September 14th, 2007Mama, PhD co-editor Elrena Evans debuts her Literary Mama column this week, Me and My House, which offers a look at her experiences mothering — as a Christian, as a feminist, as someone who can never seem to find the perfect pair of jeans. Look for “Me and My House” every month at Literary Mama.
New Fiction by Elrena Evans
August 13th, 2007Mama, PhD co-editor Elrena Evans’ story, “The Journey Home,” has been published by Literary Mama. Here’s an excerpt:
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It was day two of the journey home, and I missed Miriam. On the way to Yerushalayim for the Feast of the Passover our families had walked together, her friendship a welcome comfort on the dry, dusty road. [...]
New Book on Combining Work & Family
June 3rd, 2007Mary Ann Mason, until recently the graduate dean at U.C. Berkeley, and her daughter, Eve Mason Ekman, a social worker, have published a new book titled Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers (Oxford University Press).
Mason made news several years ago with her studies on women in the [...]
In Media Res
November 6th, 2006Sonya Huber submitted this piece for Mama, Ph.D., and I poached it for Literary Mama. Here’s just a taste:
I lose myself in my work, then I worry that I’ve been cheating: have I somehow made myself un-pregnant, broken the shallow membrane between my hopes and the multiple worlds in my head? If I stop thinking [...]
Motherhood: The Elephant in the Laboratory
November 1st, 2006In the interest of reading more stories about how women attempt to combine family and work life, I’m posting this call for papers. Please respond to Emily Monosson at the email address below for more information.
I am editing a book about women, science and family, tentatively
titled Motherhood: The Elephant in the Laboratory. I think the [...]
Do Babies Matter?
September 15th, 2006Of course they do.
Your humble editors have three between us (a fourth due in a couple of weeks) and those children have made a significant impact on our academic careers. Elrena has already written a bit about this in her essay for Literary Mama, “Birthing: A Process in Vignettes (you can also find her piece [...]
