ABSTRACT
The amount of cultural capital mothers are able to draw on in the present is not simply a consequence of their current situation. Women’s personal history and their educational experiences have an effect on their propensity for some types of action over others. There is a need to investigate women’s experience of education in the past in order to understand maternal activities in the present. In place of a narrow focus on where people are located currently, habitus emphasizes the importance of the social location people have come from, as well as highlighting the social space they have moved through, in order to reach their current position.
