...the biggest obstacles to women's success in the academy. Parenting and Professing, compilation of 24 first-person narratives about the challenges, possibilities, and prospects for change of combining motherhood with an academic career, makes an important addition to the growing literature on this topic.

Rachel Hile Bassett, herself a recent Ph.D. in English who teaches part-time at a midwestern university, gathered the essays from a diverse set of women and two men. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines, but most are English scholars who occupy various teaching roles at different types of colleges and universities mostly in the United States but also in Canada and Great Britain. The authors represent diverse perspectives in other ways: At least three are from underrepresented groups, several have adopted children or have special needs children, and others combined motherhood and graduate school. Although...

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