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Argues that institutional change must accommodate women’s professional and personal life stages.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. Michelle A. Massé
  3. pp. xiii-xviii
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  1. Part I. Graduate School
  1. 1. A Job That Gets Old Fast: Age Studies, Academic Labor Criticism, and the Graduate Employee
  2. Heather M. Steffen
  3. pp. 3-14
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  1. 2. Discourse of Aspiration: A Community of Nontraditional Women Students
  2. Nancy Scott Fox
  3. pp. 15-28
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  1. 3. The Accidental Academic, or How to Succeed in Academia through Failure and Doubt
  2. Jennifer Ann Ho
  3. pp. 29-40
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  1. 4. Uses of My Anger: Negotiating Mothering, Feminism, and Graduate School
  2. Martha Pitts
  3. pp. 41-52
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  1. 5. The Chaos of Kairos: Conflicting Discourses of Timing, Mothering, and Flexibility
  2. Jessica Ketcham
  3. pp. 53-66
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  1. Part II. Early Career (Including Pre-Tenure)
  1. 6. Working-Class Women on the Tenure Track
  2. Lynn Arner
  3. pp. 69-82
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  1. 7. My Double Life in Academia, or Extreme Parenting on the Tenure Track
  2. Mariana Past
  3. pp. 83-96
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  1. 8. Solo on Stage: The Single Mother’s Solitary Path to Tenure
  2. Hélène E. Bilis
  3. pp. 97-110
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  1. 9. Square Peg, Round Hole: My Journey toward Professor of Practice
  2. Kheli R. Willetts
  3. pp. 111-122
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  1. 10. Currency
  2. Elline Lipkin
  3. pp. 123-134
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  1. 11. Settling Down without Settling: Reflecting on Ambition, Agency, and Acquiescence
  2. Jessica McKelvie Kemp
  3. pp. 135-146
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  1. Part III. Midcareer (Including Post-Tenure)
  1. 12. Lives Like Mine: Notes at Midlife on Career Change
  2. Cynthia Miller Coffel
  3. pp. 149-160
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  1. 13. The Good Enough Academic Mother at Midcareer
  2. Devoney Looser
  3. pp. 161-174
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  1. 14. Solitary in the South: Confessions of a Single Academic at Midlife
  2. Cynthia Port
  3. pp. 175-188
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  1. 15. (In)Visibilities: A Woman Faculty of Color’s Search for a Disabled Identity That Fits
  2. Ellen M. Gil-Gómez
  3. pp. 189-202
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  1. 16. Voicing Discontent: Gender, Working-Class Values, and Composition Studies
  2. Rhonda Filipan
  3. pp. 203-218
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  1. 17. Staging Women’s Lives on the “Altac” Track
  2. Brenda Bethman and Donna M. Bickford
  3. pp. 219-232
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  1. 18. Gratitude, Agency, and the Reformation of the Stage Approach
  2. Kathryn D. Temple
  3. pp. 233-244
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  1. Part IV. Late Career and Retirement
  1. 19. The Academic Slow Lane
  2. Katie J. Hogan
  3. pp. 247-260
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  1. 20. Relentless Improvising: A Full Professor Struggles to Manage Work, Family, and Health
  2. Carol Colatrella
  3. pp. 261-274
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  1. 21. An Academic Evolution: From Chicanita to Mamá to Abuela
  2. Angelica Duran
  3. pp. 275-286
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  1. 22. Love’s Labors: Taking Care of Mother
  2. Ruth Perry
  3. pp. 287-296
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  1. 23. A View of Her Own
  2. Lynn Z. Bloom
  3. pp. 297-310
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  1. 24. The Work of Retirement
  2. Deborah Kaplan
  3. pp. 311-322
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  1. 25. Retirement in Two Voices
  2. Evelyn Torton Beck and Deborah S. Rosenfelt
  3. pp. 323-336
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 337-346
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 347-353
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