Imagining Gendered Adulthood

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

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: European Journal of Women's Studies ; 12 (2005) 1 ; 83-103

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2005
Creator
Gordon, Tuula
Holland, Janet
Lahelma, Elina
Thomson, Rachel

DOI
10.1177/1350506805048857
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-224723
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Gordon, Tuula
  • Holland, Janet
  • Lahelma, Elina
  • Thomson, Rachel

Time of origin

  • 2005

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