A Certain Age: Women Growing Older

ISBN-13: 9781864489965 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str.

Marilyn Poole; Susan Feldman

Opis

We know that the population is getting older and that there are more older women than older men. Yet, women of a certain age are almost invisible in the media and popular culture. This text explores why this is so and examines the public and private worlds of older women.

Spis treści

Contributors v

Preface ix

1 Positioning Older Women 3

2 Policy's black box: mass media, women and ageing 17

3 Meanings of home in the lives of older women (and men) 36

4 Mauve is an old woman's colour: women's visual representations of menopause 56

5 Learning at the end of your life: A pedagogy of relocation 73

6 It's a lovely feeling: older women's fitness programs 87

7 Pebbles and Hugs: Older women in small business 101

8 The improvised careers of older women: gendered ageism at work? 117

9 Social capital, volunteerism and older women 134

10 Making the most of my life: a conversation with Dot Peters 155

11 No more dinners only lunches': Older widowed women relating to the world 165

12 The ache of frequent farewells 182

13 The expectation of love in older age: towards a sociology of intimacy193

Index 209

O autorze

Marilyn Poole is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Inquiry at Deakin University. Susan Feldman is the Director of the Alma Unit on Women and Ageing at the University of Melbourne and co-editor of Something That Happens to Other People.