First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of Tables and Figures, Advisory Editorial Board, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 The Political and the Personal, Chapter 2 Separating and Connecting Public and Private Worlds, Chapter 3 Family and Education: Meanings in Childhood and Adulthood, Chapter 4 'Greedy Institutions': Straddling the Worlds of Family and Education, Chapter 5 Women and Family Life in the Academic and Public World, Chapter 6 Power, Interest and Support: The Effects of Education on the Women's Family Lives, Chapter 7 Ways of Being, Chapter 8 Equality in Different Worlds?, Appendix: The Women Interviewed, References, Index

Rosalind Edwards was a mature woman student when she did her first degree. She is a research fellow at the Social Sciences Research Centre, South Bank University, and has worked as a research officer at the National Children's Bureau.