Leicester and Married Women Working:

John Goodwin and Henrietta O’Connor As we have suggested (Goodwin and O’Connor 2013b) our first encounter with Pearl Jephcott was not a direct one. We were not aware of her books, beyond the occasional citation, and we were certainly unaware of the sheer breadth and depth of Jephcott’s contribution to British social science. We becameContinue reading “Leicester and Married Women Working:”

Embodying Leisure: The Use of Images in Pearl Jephcott’s ‘Time of One’s Own’.

Embodying Leisure – The Use of Images in Jephcott’s Time of Ones Own. LERN Occasional Papers No. 2 John Goodwin and Henrietta O’Connor, University of Leicester. Abstract While the lives and works of many sociologists have now been well documented numerous sociologists at the ‘coal face’ of social research remain ignored. As such, beyond the contributions ofContinue reading “Embodying Leisure: The Use of Images in Pearl Jephcott’s ‘Time of One’s Own’.”

Embodying Leisure: The Use of Images in Pearl Jephcott’s ‘Time of One’s Own’

John Goodwin and Henrietta O’Connor While the lives and works of many sociologists have now been well documented numerous sociologists at the ‘coal face’ of social research remain ignored. As such, beyond the contributions of those more ‘well known’ scholars, considerably more needs to be done to examine the history of our discipline to reassessContinue reading “Embodying Leisure: The Use of Images in Pearl Jephcott’s ‘Time of One’s Own’”