Gordon, Tuula; Holland, Janet; Lahelma, Elina and Thomson, Rachel
(2005).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1177/1350506805048857 |
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Abstract
In this article, the authors draw on two qualitative, longitudinal studies of young people’s transitions to adulthood and how they construct these transitions over time in social, cultural and material terms. The authors focus on the hopes, anxieties and imagined futures of young women. They discuss the individualization thesis, and the contradiction for female individualization between expectations of equality and the reality of inequality between the genders. The debate is moved beyond ‘pitiful girls’ and ‘can-do girls’ by exploring how young women in the UK and Finland anticipate and try to avoid being locked into the lives of adult women.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| ISSN: | 1461-7420 |
| Keywords: | comparative studies; gender; longitudinal; qualitative studies; transitions; young women; |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Health and Social Care > Health and Social Care |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
| Item ID: | 11698 |
| Depositing User: | Sandra Riekie |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2008 05:05 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2010 20:12 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/11698 |
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