Gender, Space, and Time Women and Higher Education

Drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre and Barbara Adam, Gender, Space and Time is an excellent empirical study that offers an original threefold conceptualisation of how space and time are developed and applied in women's lives. Dorothy Moss focuses on the everyday practice and experience of female higher education students at a community college in northern England. Women's action is considered in relation to the complex and interconnected spheres of paid work, home, leisure, community and higher education. Through the highlighting of the concepts of space and time, the complex relationship between networks of power and personal action gains visibility. Moss conceptualises women as centres of action and demonstrates the ways in which they construct personal pathways, connect different spheres of experience, integrate new time demands into the multiple rhythms of their everyday lives and carve out personal space. Gender, Space and Time is a timely and compelling work, certain to be of interest to scholars of Sociology, Women's Studies and Anthropology. Book jacket.

Dorothy Moss is Senior Lecturer in the School of Childhood and Community in the Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education at Leeds Metropolitan University