Contents: Ch. 1. The political and the personal -- Ch. 2. Separating and connecting public and private worlds -- Ch. 3. Family and education : meanings in childhood and adulthood -- Ch. 4. "Greedy institutions" : straddling the worlds of family and education -- Ch.5. Women and family life in the academic and public world -- Ch. 6. Power, interest, and support : the effects of education on the women's family lives -- Ch. 7. Ways of being -- Ch. 8. Equality in different worlds? -- Appendix. The women interviewed
Summary
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
Analysis
Women Higher education
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174) and index