Personal Life, Young Women and Higher Education [electronic resource] : A Relational Approach to Student and Graduate Experiences /
Finn, Kirsty.author.
The experience of higher education in the UK has become an increasingly common phenomenon in the 21st century. This book explores the emotional and moral significance of the relationships young women develop at university, such as friends, family and housemates, by using a seven-year qualitative longitudinal study of the transitional period.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The experience of higher education in the UK has become an increasingly common phenomenon in the 21st century. This book explores the emotional and moral significance of the relationships young women develop at university, such as friends, family and housemates, by using a seven-year qualitative longitudinal study of the transitional period.
Machine generated contents note: -- Prelude1. Introduction 2. Higher Education and Personal Life: A Relational Approach 3. Disentangling Family Relationships 4. Imagined, Embodied, Negotiated: HE and the Socio-Spatial Context of Friendship 5. Peer-Shared Intimacy, Love and Sexuality 6. Supporting New Graduates: Sustaining and Troubling Intergenerational Ties 7. Graduate Narratives of Success and (Im)Mobility 8. Conclusion.
Gender identity in education.
Higher education.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Educational sociology.
Families.
Families—Social aspects.
Sociology.
Gender and Education.
Higher Education.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Family.
Gender Studies.