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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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