Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education: Identities, Choices and Emotions

Shields, Sam

This book explores the experiences of working-class women undergraduates at three universities in the North of England. The author examines the women’s identities, choices and emotions in relation to higher education; and how they reframe their constrained university choices to maximise their chances of academic success. Highlighting differences in working-class women’s learner identities, caring commitments and quests for upwards social mobility, the book offers an understanding of working-class female student journeys and their mixture of compromise, uncertainty and hope. It will be of interest and value to scholars of working-class women students, widening participation, and sociologists of education.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Pivot

Publication Date: 2021-11-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030889340

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88935-7

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 118