Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500

ISBN-13: 9780582329027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 260 str.

Lynn Botelho; Pat Thane

Opis

These essays examine the lives of elderly women and attitudes towards them from 1500 to the present. They shed light on the process of industrialisation and welfare provision and question many common assumptions about elderly women.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Strategies of poor aged women and widows in sixteenth-century London, 2. Who most needs to marry? Ageing and inequality among women and men in early modern Norwich, 3. Old age and menopause in rural women of early modern Suffolk, 4. 'I feel myself decay apace': Old age in the diary of Lady Sarah Cowper (1644-1720), 5. Old maids: the lifecycle of single women in early modern England, 6. The old woman's home in eighteenth-century England, 7. The residence patterns of elderly English women in comparative perspective, 8. Old and incapable? Louisa Twining and elderly women in Victorian Britain, 9. 'An inheritance of fear': older women in the twentieth-century countryside, 10. Old women in twentieth-century Britain, Bibliographical essay: Older women in Britain since 1500, Index

O autorze

Lynn Botelho, Pat Thane