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- Title
Amongst Women: Exploring the Reality of Rural Childcare.
- Authors
Halliday, Joyce; Little, Jo
- Abstract
In this paper we examine the provision and use of rural childcare, drawing on original data collected as part of a study of formal and informal childcare services in the County of Devon in England. The paper goes beyond existing discussions of childcare in rural areas in attempting to place patterns of use in the broader context of household gender relations and the cultural construction of rurality. We argue that decisions around child care by rural families need to be considered in relation not only to the availability of different sorts of service but also to the employment aspirations and choices of men and women and the assumptions of the primacy of women’s mothering role. Such issues are underpinned, we contest, by idyllic constructions of rural family life and social relations.
- Subjects
MAN-woman relationships; WOMEN employees; WOMEN'S employment; PRIMARY care; CARING; AGE discrimination in employment
- Publication
Sociologia Ruralis, 2001, Vol 41, Issue 4, p423
- ISSN
0038-0199
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9523.00192