Mothers' Ways of Making It—or Making Do?: Making (Over) Academic Lives in Rhetoric and Composition with Children

Authors

Kim Hensley Owens, University of Rhode IslandFollow
Christine Peters Cucciarre
Deborah E. Morris
Lee Nickoson
Mary P. Sheridan

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

2011

Department

Writing and Rhetoric

Abstract

This article focuses on five women's experiences “making it” as rhetoricians with children. Expanding the definition of success Michelle Ballif, Diane Davis and Roxanne Mountford set forth in Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition, the article offers suggestions for moving toward more family-friendly academic structures, not least by recognizing that the seemingly individualistic idea of choice—such as the choice to have children—rests uneasily with the often invisible structures that shape and delimit choices. The authors call for increased visibility of and acceptance for a greater range of possibilities for “making it” in the field today.

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Christine Peters Cucciarre, et al. “Mothers' Ways of Making It—or Making Do?: Making (Over) Academic Lives In Rhetoric and Composition with Children.” Composition Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2011, pp. 41–61. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/compstud.39.1.0041.

Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/compstud.39.1.0041