Gendered capital: emotional capital and mothers' care work in education

This paper is concerned with the inequalities experienced by mothers in the performance of educational care work for their children. It is argued that the caring work carried out by mothers at transfer to second-level schooling is shaped by their ability to activate the significant resource of emoti...

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Published in:	British journal of sociology of education Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 137 - 148
Main Author:	O'Brien, Maeve
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon Routledge 01.03.2008 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:	Academic achievement Capital Capital resources Caregivers Caring Childrearing Practices Children Codes of practice Economic resources Education Educational Attainment Educational inequality Educational resources Educational sociology emotional capital Emotional Experience Emotional Response Emotional support Emotions Family School Relationship Feminism Foreign Countries Gender Gender Issues Gender studies Homosexuality Inequality Interpersonal Relationship Ireland Love Marital Satisfaction moral imperative to care Motherhood Mothers One Parent Family Parent participation Parent Role Parents Parents & parenting Pedagogy Schooling Sex Fairness Sex Stereotypes Sexual Inequality Social Bias Social problems and social policy. Social work Social research Social support Socioeconomic Status Sociology Sociology of education. Educational systems. Lifelong education solidary relationships Transitional Programs Working mothers Ireland Education Emotions Capital
ISSN:	0142-5692, 1465-3346
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