How do the necessities of caring for others deter, benefit, or redefine
        research and teaching in higher education? What have universities done
        to recognize the difficulties facing academic parents, single mothers
        and fathers, graduate students, lesbian and gay couples? What pro-family
        policies can be enacted during institutional budget crises?
      At a time when the academy is an ever more demanding arbiter and shaper
        of the lives of those it employs, The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties
        While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve discusses the challenges
        and benefits of balancing a rewarding professional life with the competing
        needs to nurture children, care for aging parents, and engage in other
        personal relationships. Here academic women and men explore issues that
        include biological and tenure clocks, childcare and eldercare, surrogate
        parenting of students, and increasing job demands. In telling stories
        about the quality of their lives, they express their hopes, anxieties,
        difficulties, and personal strategies for maintaining a delicate but achievable
        balance.
      "Lively, well-written, useful, and persuasive … The Family
        Track reveals much on family roles within the academy and suggests
        many specific projects and guidelines for Institutional change."
        -- Judith Kegan Gardiner, editor of Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency
        in Theory and Practice
 

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system.

However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system.

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Full Moon at Noontide is the story of Ann Putnam’s mother and father and her father’s identical twin, and how they lived together with their courage and their stumblings, as they made their way into old age and then into death. It’s the story of the journey from one twin’s death to the other, of what happened along the way, of what it means to lose the other who is also oneself. And it’s the story of how Ann Putnam herself struggled to save them and could not, and how she dealt with the weight of guilt, of worrying that she had not done enough, said enough, stayed long enough for them all. How she learned that through this long journey all that was really needed was love.