Shaping children's mobilities: Expectations of gendered parenting in the English rural idyll

Children's Geographies

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 379-394

  Foy Phillips, Phoebe ^a   Lloyd Evans, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Gender; Hybridity; Materiality; Mobilities; Parenting; Rurality; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054050126     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2011.590701     Document Type: Article

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