Sole Parent Students and Higher Education Gender, Policy and Widening Participation /

• Main Author: Hook, Genine A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Gender identity in education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Education and state.; Higher Education.; Education Policy.; Sociology of Education.; Gender and Education.

This book examines how sole parents are constituted within university contexts, through social discourse and social policies. The gendered assumptions of female parental care-work are analysed as both constraining and enabling sole parent participation in higher education. Social welfare policies an...