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Mother-scholars drive the feminist impulse to dismantle patriarchal binaries – namely, the sharp divide between the intellect and the maternal, the public and the private. For mother-scholars, maternal work is an intellectual endeavor. Because academic thinking plays a huge role in their careers, mother-scholars are committed to establishing an intellectual presence in their children’s education. Although school sites are technically public spaces, identifying the school as “their child’s” turns the school site into a perceived private space. This impels motherscholars to thoroughly evaluate their children’s education space
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Lapayese, Y.V. (2012). Mother-Scholars Intellectualize the Private Sphere. In: Lapayese, Y.V. (eds) Mother-Scholar. Transgressions, vol 85. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-891-9_3
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