Gender, space and time : women and higher education / Dorothy Moss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moss, Dorothy, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Education (Higher)--Social aspects.

Women.

Women--Time management.

Time perception.

Spatial behavior.

Women--Education (Higher).

Physical Description:

ix, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

Drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre and Barbara Adam, Gender, Space and Time is an excellent empirical study that offers an original threefold conceptualisation of how space and time are developed and applied in women's lives. Dorothy Moss focuses on the everyday practice and experience of female higher education students at a community college in northern England. Women's action is considered in relation to the complex and interconnected spheres of paid work, home, leisure, community and higher education. Through the highlighting of the concepts of space and time, the complex relationship between networks of power and personal action gains visibility. Moss conceptualises women as centres of action and demonstrates the ways in which they construct personal pathways, connect different spheres of experience, integrate new time demands into the multiple rhythms of their everyday lives and carve out personal space. Gender, Space and Time is a timely and compelling work, certain to be of interest to scholars of Sociology, Women's Studies and Anthropology.

Contents:

Introduction: lines of enquiry

Feminist theory, a critical realist approach

Theorising gender, space and time

The spatial and temporal relations of women's everyday lives

The spatial and temporal relations of higher education

Research through the prism of space and time

Spatial and temporal practices: frameworks for action

Spatial and temporal representations: guidelines for action

The framework and guidelines of higher education

Women as centres of action

Conclusions: women creating space and time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index.

ISBN:

0739109979

0739114514

OCLC:

61684191

Publisher Number:

9780739109977 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780739114513 (pbk. alk. paper)