Women and the Life Cycle: Transitions and Turning-Points

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Gender and Generation: The Life and Times of Adam and Eve....Pages 13-32
The Social Classification of Women: A Life-Cycle Approach....Pages 33-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Adolescent Girls: Transition from Girlfriends to Boyfriends?....Pages 49-63
‘I’ve Got Used to Being Independent Now’: Women and Courtship in a Recession....Pages 64-76
Broken Transitions: From School to the Scrap Heap....Pages 77-89
A Bed of Roses? Women, Marriage and Inequality in Later Life....Pages 90-105
‘My Husband Says I’m Too Old for Dancing’: Women, Leisure and Life Cycles....Pages 106-116
Married Women at Midlife: Past Experience and Present Change....Pages 117-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Women’s Three Working Lives and Trade-Union Participation....Pages 135-148
Transitions: Changing Work, Leisure and Health Experiences among Mothers with Young Children....Pages 149-163
The Resumption of Employment after Childbirth: a Turning-Point within a Life-Course Perspective....Pages 164-177
Interrupted Lives: A Study of Women Returners....Pages 178-191
‘Liberators’, ‘Companions’, ‘Intruders’ and ‘Cuckoos in the Nest’: A Sociology of Caring Relationships over the Life Cycle....Pages 192-207
Back Matter....Pages 208-229