List-keepers and other carrier bag stories: Academic mothers' (in)visible labor during the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorGuyotte, Kelly W.
dc.contributor.authorMelchior, Shelly
dc.contributor.authorCoogler, Carlson H.
dc.contributor.authorShelton, Stephanie Anne
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T19:34:01Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T19:34:01Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractBeginning in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted familiar rhythms of work and life when academic women from the United States sheltered-in-place in their homes. The pandemic brought forth challenges which accentuated that caregiving with little or no support disproportionately affected mothers' abilities to navigate their new lives inside the home, where work and caregiving abruptly collided. This article takes on the (in)visible labor of academic mothers during this time-the labor mothers saw and viscerally experienced, yet that which was often unseen/unexperienced by others. Using Ursula K. Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory as a conceptual framework, the authors engage with interviews of 54 academic mothers through a feminist-narrative lens. They craft stories of carrying (in)visible labor, isolation, simultaneity, and list-keeping as they navigate the mundaneness of everyday pandemic home/work/life. Through unrelenting responsibilities and expectations, they each find ways to carry it all, as they carry on.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationGuyotte, K. W., Melchior, S., Coogler, C. H., & Shelton, S. A. (2023). List-keepers and other carrier bag stories: Academic mothers’ (in)visible labor during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Women’s Studies International Forum (Vol. 98, p. 102755). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102755
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102755
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/11449
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPergamon
dc.subjectAcademic mothers
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectLabor
dc.subjectInvisible
dc.subjectFeminism
dc.subjectNarrative research
dc.subjectPandemic
dc.subjectPARENTS
dc.subjectWomen's Studies
dc.titleList-keepers and other carrier bag stories: Academic mothers' (in)visible labor during the COVID-19 pandemicen_US
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