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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Epistemological Foundations
• Chapter 3. Perspectives of Sole Parents in Higher Education
• Chapter 4. The Case Study
• Chapter 5. Judith Butler's Gender Performativity and Recognition
• Chapter 6. Sole Parenting in Higher Education Spaces
• Chapter 7. Access and Attachment to Higher Education for Sole Parents
• Chapter 8. Policy: Performative Recognisability
• Chapter 9. Equitable and Widening Participation in Higher Education
• Chapter 10. Conclusion.