Women Attached

The Daily Lives of Women with Young Children

Bibliographic Data

ID23514247
AuthorsJacqueline Tivers (0000-0001-6515-6450)
Year2024
Publication date2024-09-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byWomen Attached: The Daily Lives of Women with Young Children, Teresa Donati Marciano, 1987
VenueWomen Attached (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003519492
OpenAlexW4402766635
ISBN9781003519492
LanguageEN
Citations received38

Originally published in 1985, Women Attached was one of the first empirical studies in geography to deal with the special problems of women with young children. Even within sociology and psychology there were very few studies in this area at the time. Within geography the study of this population sub-group was certainly a new departure. However, it was impossible to make meaningful sense of the structure of daily lives and activities of women without taking in to account the nature and impact of constraints on such activities. Young children being the most clearly visible constraint in women’s lives. Therefore, one aim of the research project was to relate empirical findings to the existing social science literature dealing with constraints on activities. This book was an attempt to redress the balance slightly in favour of women’s activities and specifically focuses on a group of women who had only rarely been the subject of research interest at the time. Today it can read in its historical context.

Geography · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies

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