Home and away: Constructing family and childhood in the context of working parenthood

Children's Geographies

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 298-310

  Harden, Jeni ^a   Backett Milburn, Kathryn ^a   MacLean, Alice ^b   Cunningham Burley, Sarah ^a   Jamieson, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

family; home; qualitative; tempo; working parenthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880948478     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2013.812274     Document Type: Article

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