Mothering and Professing: Critical Choices and the Academic Career

NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 229-244

  Ward, Kelly ^a   Wolf Wendel, Lisa ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 85031409321     PISSN: 19407890     EISSN: 19407882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19407882.2017.1351995     Document Type: Article

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