The experience of higher education in the UK has become an increasingly common phenomenon in the 21st century. This book explores the emotional and moral significance of the relationships young women develop at university, such as friends, family and housemates, by using a seven-year qualitative longitudinal study of the transitional period.
Personal Life, Young Women and Higher Education: A Relational Approach to Student and Graduate Experiences
Table of contents
Prelude
1. Introduction
2. Higher Education and Personal Life: A Relational Approach
3. Disentangling Family Relationships
4. Imagined, Embodied, Negotiated: HE and the Socio-Spatial Context of Friendship
5. Peer-Shared Intimacy, Love and Sexuality
6. Supporting New Graduates: Sustaining and Troubling Intergenerational Ties
7. Graduate Narratives of Success and (Im)Mobility
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