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Book SynopsisThis book is about women's careers, how they think about and enact their working lives, and how these patterns change or stay the same over time. Cohen develops the concept of career imagination which shows how women define and delimit what is possible, legitimate and appropriate in career terms.
Trade ReviewThis is an authoritative and thought-provoking book, which makes maximum use of the methodology of semi-structured in-depth interviews to reconsider many assumptions about the apparently straightforward notion of the career. It left me thinking about what the implications of this research might be for the two domains largely left out of this particular story: how men see their careers in our increasingly fragmented work environment, and where the myths of motherhood fit into womens career imaginations. * Ruth Garland, LSE Blog *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; 1. Women's career lives: 1993-2010 ; 2. Telling career stories ; 3. The cast ; 4. The transition from employment to self-employment ; 5. Changing contexts ; 6. Developing careers through time ; 7. As in work, so too in retirement ; 8. The importance of others ; 9. The career imagination ; References
