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Family Geographies and Gender Cultures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2002

Simon Duncan  and
Darren Smith
Simon Duncan
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Bradford. E-mail: s.s.duncan@bradford.ac.uk
Darren Smith
Affiliation:
School of Geography, University of Leeds
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Abstract

In this paper we describe regional differences in partnering and parenting within Britain, using indices of the ‘Motherhood Employment Effect’ to indicate different geographical levels of adherence to the ‘traditional’ male breadwinner/female homemaker family, and of ‘Family Conventionality’ to indicate geographical differences in ‘good-enough parenting’. The geography of family formations thus described does not follow the better known ‘north–south’ or ‘urban–rural’ geographies of economic performance and prosperity, and we speculate as to how this relatively unfamiliar family geography may be related to the existence of regional gender cultures.

Type
Research Article
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 21 - 34
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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