“I Would Never Let My Wife Do That”: The Stories We Tell to Stay Afloat

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dc.contributor.authorTondreau, Amy
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-11T20:24:50Z
dc.date.available2023-01-11T20:24:50Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-30
dc.description.abstractMy husband and I are high school sweethearts who were, from the outside, living the suburban American dream. Yet, a life that “should” have made me happy actually felt suffocating. In this narrative, I describe how I pursued academia as a way out, but was unprepared for the ways that the gendered notions of academia and trailing spouses would constrain and challenge both my partner and me, testing the strength of our marriage. Over time, we came to acknowledge our fluid identities and explore strategies to manage our mental health, marriage, and academic/career paths. Repositioning ourselves as agents in our narratives allowed us to disrupt and renegotiate the gendered discourses that previously constricted us. Now, we must determine what’s next.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-90590-7_2en_US
dc.format.extent12 pagesen_US
dc.genrebook chaptersen_US
dc.genrepostprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2dhxk-kucq
dc.identifier.citation"Tondreau, A. (2018). “I would never let my wife do that”: Stories we tell to stay afloat. In S. A. Shelton, J. E. Flynn, & T. J. Grosland (Eds.), Feminism and intersectionality in academia: Women’s narratives and experiences in higher education. Palgrave MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-90590-7 "en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90590-7_2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/26634
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Education Department Collection
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dc.title“I Would Never Let My Wife Do That”: The Stories We Tell to Stay Afloaten_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4006-9697en_US

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