Mature Women Students - Separating of Connecting Family and Education

Informationen zum Autor Rosalind Edwards was a mature woman student when she did her first degree. She is a research fellow at the Social Sciences Research Centre, South Bank University, and has worked as a research officer at the National Children's Bureau. Klappentext First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung At a time when more mature women are being encouraged to enter higher education as students, this book investigates the effects that studying for a degree has upon women's relationships. The volume explores the interfaces between education and family in the lives of mature women students. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables and Figures, Advisory Editorial Board, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 The Political and the Personal, Chapter 2 Separating and Connecting Public and Private Worlds, Chapter 3 Family and Education: Meanings in Childhood and Adulthood, Chapter 4 'Greedy Institutions': Straddling the Worlds of Family and Education, Chapter 5 Women and Family Life in the Academic and Public World, Chapter 6 Power, Interest and Support: The Effects of Education on the Women's Family Lives, Chapter 7 Ways of Being, Chapter 8 Equality in Different Worlds?, Appendix: The Women Interviewed, References, Index

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• Authors: R. Edwards, Rosalind Edwards, Rosalind (University of Southampton Edwards, Edwards Rosalind, Edwards Rosalind Edwards, Rosalind Edwards South Bank University, Rosalind Edwards South Bank University., Rosalind Edwards South Bank University.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.1993
• EAN: 9780748400874
• ISBN: 978-0-7484-0087-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher