Gender, Space, and Time

Women and Higher Education

AvDorothy Moss

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre and Barbara Adam, Gender, Space, and Time is a brilliant study that offers a unique and original threefold conceptualization of how space and time is developed and applied in an empirical study of women's lives. Author Dorothy Moss focuses on the everyday practice and experience of women 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 highlighting concepts of space and time, the complex relationship between networks of power and personal action gains visibility. Moss conceptualizes women as centers 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-04-13
Mått:164 x 236 x 26 mm
Vikt:553 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739109977

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Dorothy Moss is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Childhood and Community in the Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education at Leeds Metropolitan University.

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This is a fascinating text, which yields valuable insight into the theorisation of space, time, and gender. Dorothy Moss brings together insights from a number of overlapping fields in exploring how women's everyday practices in higher education are shaped by dominant spatial/temporal representations and practices. Moss brings alive the voices of the women in her study across the fields of paid employment, housing and household, including childcare, friendship and relationships. She explores how these differing spatial and temporal modalities impact on women's experience of studying in higher education. She is alive to issues of class, geographical origin, race, and to other aspects of identity, and her sensitive analysis of the data captures the complexity of the lives of the women in her study. Full of wonderful insights, as well as theoretical rigour, this text deserves a wide readership among higher education practitioners and feminists, as well as social scientists with a specialist interest in the theorisation of space and time.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction: Lines of EnquiryChapter 2 Feminist Theory, a Critical Realist ApproachChapter 3 Theorizing Gender, Space, and TimeChapter 4 The Spatial and Temporal Relations of Women's Everyday LivesChapter 5 The Spatial and Temporal Relations of Higher EducationChapter 6 Research through the Prism of Space and TimeChapter 7 Spatial and Temporal Practices: Frameworks for ActionChapter 8 Spatial and Temporal Representations: Guidelines for ActionChapter 9 The Framework and Guidelines of Higher EducationChapter 10 Women as Centers of ActionChapter 11 Conclusions: Women Creating Space and Time