The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach and Serve Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface: Working with Constance
	When They Sleep All the Time
	Introduction
	Your First Two Steps
	The Maternal Mind	3
	Nine-Syllable Riddle	7
	Harvard in the Sixties: (Un)Speakable Memories	14
	Plus Ca Change ...?	19
	Around 1971	24
	Single Parent Maneuvers in Academia	27
	Today I Couldn't Get Here from There: A Latina Mother's Journey	32
	Motherhood Is Not an Entry-Level Job	40
	Paul Lauter Interview	44
	Carolyn Forche Interview	53
	Out of the Mouths of Babes; or, A Sophist's Choice	59
	Not the Feminism I Want My Daughter to Know	66
	Mentoring, Mothering, and Mayhem: Costs of the Superwoman Syndrome	75
	Lavender Labors or Activist Mothering	80
	When Mother Is a Four-Letter Word	86
	The Discursive Production of Student-Parents: Theory, Class, and Coalition Politics	91
	Beware the Silence: The Risks of a Commuter Marriage	98
	Maneuvering through the Cultural Borders of Parenting: Egypt and the United States	103
	Reading around the Kids	109
	Vampires in the Classroom	114
	Invisible Babies	121
	How I Got Married, Had a Kid, and Lived to Tell	130
	Recollections of a Tenured Mom	137
	Juggling on an Uneven Playing Field	139
	Letter on Silences	145
	Adventures of a Single Father in Academe	151
	Sitting on the Fence: Balancing Heart and Mind	157
	A Weaning	163
	Silver Linings: Forging a Link between Mothering a Child with Autism and Teaching/Scholarship	167
	Disabling Facts, Enabling Conditions: Motherhood and Teaching in India and the United States	173
	Care and Career in an Aging Society	185
	Eldercare and Multicultural Values	193
	The Nurture Sandwich: Between Child Care and Eldercare	198
	Faculty Wives: Lesbian Family Values	205
	Be Fruitful but Don't Multiply; Institutional Denial of Gay and Lesbian Families	211
	The Arrogant Academy, Activism, and the Transracial Family	215
	Mommy and Me	222
	The Fourth Generation of Women Facing the Question	225
	And Now the Fifth	231
	Silent Parenting in the Academy	237
	Family Care in the Profession	250
	Of Parents Born: Changing the Family Care System in Academe	255
	Domestic Partnership Benefits at the University of Minnesota	261
	Teaching, Research, Service: The Impact of Adoption	267
	On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex	272
	Staying Whole	277
	Creating the Family-Friendly Campus	284