Abstract
This edited volume by Lynn O’Brien Hallstein and Andrea O’Reilly makes an important contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on motherhood and academe. Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context: Challenges, Strategies and Possibilities is an insightful collection of essays that argues aca-demic motherhood must be understood in temporal and conceptual relation to the Second Wave. Post-Second Wave academic mothering is challenging, in part due to cultural understandings of motherhood and womanhood. In the post-Second Wave context, working mothers are expected to successfully “have it all.”