At a time when more mature women are being encouraged to enter higher education as students, this book investigates the effects that studying for a degree has upon women's relationships. The volume explores the interfaces between education and family in the lives of mature women students.
mhe political and the personal; separating and connecting public and
private worlds; family and education - meanings in childhood and adulthood;
"greedy institutions" - straddling the worlds of family and education; women
and family life in the academic and public world; power, interest and support
- the effects of education on the women's family lives; ways of being;
equality in different worlds. Appendix: the women interviewed.
