Review at Girl w/Pen!
January 10th, 2009Deborah Siegel’s blog, Girl w/Pen, is one of the smartest ones out there; she and her co-editors produce smart, sharp, feminist commentary on current events, politics and pop culture. So we’re especially proud today to be reviewed there by Elline Lipkin. Here’s an excerpt:
“The contributors in this book, edited by Caroline Grant and Elrena Evans, break the seal of silence that suppresses the intense difficulties and institutionalized prejudice that academics who want to be more than just a “head on a stick” – but rather a whole person, including a maternal body – experience. And the pressures that result for women as their likely prime childbearing years meet squarely with the ticking of the tenure clock is intense. The book’s contributors, from a range of academic fields and even generations, outline in often poignant and sometimes excruciating detail how they are forced to choose between career and family, or find creative, often exhausting, and most likely just plain lucky ways to tie the two together.”
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