Place and space for women in a rural area in Iceland

The aim of this article is to explore what happens when women in Iceland try to reinhabit their ‘place’ in the community by undertaking university studies through distance learning. The research builds on interviews with eight women from the remote Westfjords area in Iceland. They had all taken a hi...

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Main Author: Anna Guðrún (Gudrun) Edvardsdóttir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Aberdeen, School of Education 2013-05-01
Series:Education in the North
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Online Access:https://abdn.ac.uk/eitn/journal/99/