ABSTRACT
Full Circles 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|33 pages
Eliminating the Journey to Work
Home-based work across the life course of women in the United States
chapter 4|19 pages
Growing Girls/Closing Circles
Limits on the spaces of knowing in rural Sudan and US cities
chapter 5|15 pages
‘He Won't Let She Stretch She Foot'
Gender relations in traditional West Indian houseyards
chapter 9|17 pages
Life Course and Space
Dual careers and residential mobility among upper-middle-class families in the Île-de-France region
chapter 10|20 pages
Local Childcare Strategies in Montréal, Québec
The mediations of state policies, class and ethnicity in the life courses of families with young children
