Full Circles

Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course, the book explores the futures open to women in diverse and changing locations.

1: When in the World are Women?; 2: Women and Work Across the Life Course; 3: Eliminating the Journey to Work; 4: Growing Girls/Closing Circles; 5: 'He Won't Let She Stretch She Foot'; 6: Women, Work and the Life Course in the Rural Caribbean; 7: Gender and the Life Course on the Frontiers of Settlement in Colombia; 8: Old Ties; 9: Life Course and Space; 10: Local Childcare Strategies in Montréal, Québec; 11: Women'S Travel Patterns at Various Stages of their Lives; 12: Women, the State and the Life Course in Urban Australia; 13: Making Connections