| Description |
xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
International studies of women and place |
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International studies of women and place.
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| Contents |
1. When in the World Are Women? / Janice Monk and Cindi Katz -- 2. Women and Work Across the Life Course: Moving Beyond Essentialism / Geraldine Pratt and Susan Hanson -- 3. Eliminating the Journey to Work: Home-Based Work Across the Life Course of Women in the United States / Kathleen Christensen -- 4. Growing Girls/Closing Circles: Limits on the Spaces of Knowing in Rural Sudan and US Cities / Cindi Katz -- 5. 'He Won't Let She Stretch She Foot': Gender Relations in Traditional West Indian Houseyards / Lydia M. Pulsipher -- 6. Women, Work and the Life Course in the Rural Caribbean / Janet Momsen -- 7. Gender and the Life Course on the Frontiers of Settlement in Colombia / Janet G. Townsend -- 8. Old Ties: Women, Work and Ageing in a Coal-Mining Community in West Virginia / Patricia Sachs -- 9. Life Course and Space: Dual Careers and Residential Mobility Among Upper-Middle-Class Families in the Ile-De-France Region / Jeanne Fagnani -- 10. Local Childcare Strategies in Montreal, Quebec: The Medications of State Policies, Class and Ethnicity in the Life Courses of Families with Young Children / Damaris Rose -- 11. Women's Travel Patterns at Various Stages of Their Lives / Sandra Rosenbloom -- 12. Women, the State and the Life Course in Urban Australia / Ruth Fincher -- 13. Making Connections: Space, Place and the Life Course / Cindi Katz and Janice Monk. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and index. |
| Subject |
Women -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- Employment -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Life cycle, Human -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Human geography.
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| Added Author |
Katz, Cindi, 1954-
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Monk, Janice J.
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| ISBN |
0415075629 paperback |
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