Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions, Liminality, Performativity

by Garth Stahl and Sarah McDonald

Despite efforts to widen participation, first-in-family students, as an equity group, remain severely under-represented in higher education internationally. This book explores and analyses the gendered and classed subjectivities of 48 Australian students in the First-in-Family Project serving as a fresh perspective to the study of youth in transition. Drawing on liminality to provide theoretical insight, the authors focus on how they engage in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367677911
• ISBN13: 9780367677916
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"