Overview
- Provides a conceptual lens on three generations of Australian mothers and daughters, exploring non-linear transitions across education, work and the life course
- Brings a fresh and engaging perspective on the ways religious and cultural discourses mark women’s lives
- Includes photographs of personal memorabilia, adding a personal and engrossing dimension to the book’s rigorous and scholarly content
- Offers insights from a range of experts on youth transitions, cultural studies, and girls’ and schooling
- Provides an important addition to the field of qualitative longitudinal research
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fluid Transitions: Continuity and Change in Education, Training and Work
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A Woman’s Life Reflected
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Qualitative Longitudinal Research
- Australian Mother-daughter Relationship
- Inter-generational Relationships
- Generation and Change
- Girls' Education in Australia
- Women's Life Trajectories in Australia
- Australian Female Youth Transitions
- Australian Women's Study and Work Transitions
- Catholic Schooling in Australia
- Multi-methodological Approach to Research
About this book
The unique research focuses on the stories of thirteen groups of Australian mothers and daughters, including the maternal genealogy of the editor of the book. Extended conversations conducted twenty years apart provide a situated approach to locating the everyday practices of women, while the oral storytelling presents a rich portrayal of how these girls and women view themselves and their relationship as mothers and daughters.
The book introduces the key themes of education, work and life transitions as they intersect with generational change and continuity, gender and religion, and the non-linear transitional stories are told across the life-course examining how Catholic pasts shaped, and continue to shape, the participants’ lives.
Adopting a multi-methodological approach to research drawing on photographs, memorabilia passed among mothers and daughters, journal entries and letters, it describes how women’s lives are lived in different spaces and negotiated through diverse material and symbolic dimensions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education, Work and Catholic Life
Book Subtitle: Stories of Three Generations of Australian Mothers and Daughters
Authors: Anne Keary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8989-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8988-7Published: 24 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8991-7Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8989-4Published: 12 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 248
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Education, Religion and Education, Gender and Education, Gender Studies, Australasian Culture, Catholicism