Mother-Scholar -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- MOTHER-SCHOLAR STANDPOINT(S) -- WHO ARE WE? -- Format -- Definitions -- CHAPTER 1: MOTHER-SCHOLAR: Women Who Intellectualize and Women Who Mother -- INTRODUCTION -- MOTHER-SCHOLARS -- Adrienne Rich -- Sara Ruddick -- Patricia Hill-Collins -- Cherrie Moraga -- MOTHER-SCHOLARS AND ACADEMIA -- MOTHER-SCHOLAR AND THE DISCIPLINE OF EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 2: ANDROCENTRISM IN SCHOOLS -- Male Ways of Knowing -- Binaries -- Bifurcation of Mind/Body in Education -- Rupture -- CHAPTER 3: MOTHER-SCHOLARS INTELLECTUALIZE THE PRIVATE SPHERE -- INTRODUCTION -- Mother-Scholar Research -- Mother-scholars "Privately" Contest Schooling -- Mother-scholars Intellectualize the Home -- CHAPTER 4: MOTHER-SCHOLARS MATERNALIZE THE "PUBLIC" SPHERE -- INTRODUCTION -- Maternal Thinking in Academic Spaces -- Maternal Thinking and Scholarship -- CHAPTER 5: MOTHER-SCHOLARS NAVIGATE THE "THIRD SPACE" -- THIRD SPACE -- Mother-Scholars are Committed to Contextualized Moments -- Mother-Scholars are Committed to Temporal Agreements -- Mother-Scholarship is Committed to One Bottom Line: The Preservation of the Child -- CHAPTER 6: MOTHER-SCHOLARS (RE)IMAGINE SCHOOLS -- Mother-Scholars (Re)imagine -- Teaching and Learning to Unearth Knowledge Within to Discover Life Work(s) -- Teaching and Learning to Cultivate Intimacy -- Teaching and Learning to Care for the Flesh -- CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE -- Tears -- Telling Stories -- Crossing Over -- Teaching as (and Because of) Mother-Scholar -- REFERENCES.