1st Edition

Women Attached The Daily Lives of Women with Young Children

By Jacqueline Tivers Copyright 1985
376 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1985, Women Attached was one of the first empirical studies in geography to deal with the special problems of women with young children. Even within sociology and psychology there were very few studies in this area at the time. Within geography the study of this population sub-group was certainly a new departure. However, it was impossible to make meaningful sense of the... Read more

Figures and Maps.  List of Tables.  Acknowledgements.  1. Introduction  2. Focus on Constraints I – Societal Constraints  3. Focus on Constraints II – Physical Constraints  4. Background to the Empirical Study  5. Paid Employment  6. Non-Employment Activities  7. The Local Orientation of Women’s Lives  8. Child Care  9. The Quality of Life  10. Conclusions and a Look to the Future.  Bibliography.  Appendices.  Index.

Biography

After undertaking higher degree studies, Dr Jacqueline Tivers was a university lecturer/ senior lecturer from 1980 to 2010 at Surrey, Anglia Ruskin and Nottingham Trent Universities. Since retiring in 2010 she has continued her connection with academic Geography as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and as a Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at Oxford Brookes and Nottingham Trent Universities.