ISBN:
9780415075626
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (332 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
Parallel Title:
Print version Full Circles : Geographies of Women over the Life Course
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈EM〉Full Circles〈/EM〉 describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course, the book explores the futures open to women in diverse and changing locations
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Full Circles; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 When in the World are Women?; 2 Women and Work across the Life Course: Moving Beyond Essentialism; 3 Eliminating the Journey to Work: Home-based Work Across the Life Course of Women in the United States; 4 Growing Girls/Closing Circles: Limits on the Spaces of Knowing in Rural Sudan and US Cities; 5 'He Won't Let She Stretch She Foot': Gender Relations in Traditional West Indian Houseyards
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Women, Work and the Life Course in the Rural Caribbean7 Gender and the Life Course on the Frontiers of Settlement in Colombia; 8 Old Ties: Women, Work and Ageing in a Coal-Mining Community in West Virginia; 9 Life Course and Space: Dual Carrers and Residential Mobilily among Upper-Middle-Class Families in the Île-de-France Region; 10 Local Childcare Strategies in Montréal, Québec: The Mediations of State Policies, Class and Ethnicity in the Life Courses of Families with Young Children; 11 Women's Travel Patterns at Various Stages of Their Lives
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Women, The State and the Life Course in Urban Australia13 Making Connections: Space, Place and the Life Course; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
