Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy

A groundbreaking exploration of Black women navigating motherhood and academia.Laboring Positions disrupts the dominant discourse on academic women’s mothering experiences. This collection centers Black women's voices, often silenced within the disembodied, patriarchal, and increasingly neoliberal work environment of academia.

This volume acknowledges the institutional challenges facing caregiving academics, while expanding the conversation by speaking against the private/public spheres app...