chapter Introduction: Gendering lifelong learning / CAROLE LEATHWOOD -- part PART I The policy context -- chapter 1 Unprotected participation in lifelong learning and the politics of hope: a feminist reality check of discourses around exibility, seamlessness and learner earners / JILL BLACKMORE -- chapter 2 Locating the learner within EU policy: Trajectories, complexities, identities / JACKY BRINE -- chapter 3 Gendered constructions of lifelong learning and the learner in the UK policy context / CAROLE LEATHWOOD -- part PART II Accessing lifelong learning -- chapter 4 Troubling trajectories: gendered choices and pathways from school to work / BECKY FRANCIS -- chapter 5 Masculinities, femininities and resistance to participation in post-compulsory education / LOUISE ARCHER -- chapter 6 Fair access? Exploring gender, access and participation beyond entry to higher education / PENNY JANE BURKE -- part PART III Experiences of lifelong learning -- chapter 7 Community education: Participation, risk and desire / LYN TETT -- chapter 8 From childcare practitioner to FE Tutor: Biography, identity and lifelong learning / HELEN COLLEY -- chapter 9 Disability, gender and identity: The experiences of disabled students in higher education / SHEILA RIDDELL -- chapter 10 The in/visible journey: Black women's lifelong lessons in higher education / HEIDI SAFIA MIRZA -- chapter 11 Older women as lifelong learners / BARBARA KAMLER -- chapter 12 War and diaspora as lifelong learning contexts for immigrant women / SHAHRZAD MOJAB -- chapter 13 Conclusion / BECKY FRANCIS.