MotherScholaring During the COVID-19 Pandemic

<p>This book presents interdisciplinary empirical studies about the COVID-19 pandemic’s complex influence on the professional personal and family lives of mothers in academia or “MotherScholars”. It calls attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education's responses to it highlight the historical societal and cultural inequities between diverse groups of MotherScholars.</p><p>The volume represents diverse ethnicities (e.g. Black Pinay Asian American) an assortment of disciplines (e.g. sociology education psychology Asian American studies etc.) and a variety of methodologies (e.g. collaborative autoethnography photovoice kuwentos etc.) to share diverse narratives linked through an identity and pursuit of MotherScholarhood. It addresses the wide range of pressures and influences affecting mothers in academia and tackles the additional burdens and prejudices MotherScholars with marginalized cultural and religious identities face. Taken as a whole the book presents important and complementary findings through different MotherScholar perspectives which underscore the complexity of their experience and how it was impacted by a global pandemic.</p><p><i>MotherScholaring During the COVID-19 Pandemic </i>will be a key resource for researchers and practitioners of education studies educational research educational leadership and policy educational administration gender studies and women’s studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the <i>Peabody Journal of Education.</i></p>