Women Ageing : Changing Identities, Challenging Myths

ISBN-13: 9780415189446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str.

Linda Machin; Miriam Bernard; Judith Philips

Opis

This text draws on the editors' and contributors' specialist interests in social work, counselling and gerontology, specifically on research being undertaken on various aspects of the lives of adult women, from mid-life to old age. The volume is primarily concerned with the transitions on the lives of adult women and is constructed around a series of key themes: identity, myths and reality; and managing change. The book illustrates the similarities and diversities which arise in women's lives in relation to ethnicity and race, class, disability and sexual orientation. In doing so, it challenges the more traditional views of women's lives and offers alternative interpretations of key experiences within the life course.

Spis treści

1.Introduction 2.The Change: Challenges and Opportunities 3 Working Women: Paid and Unpaid Carers 4.Something for Me: Women Aged 50 Plus in Higher Education 5 Our Ageing Selves: Midlife Professionals Reflect on Growing Older 6.From Pin Money to Needlepoint 7 Widowhood in Later Life 8.Love and Romance in Later Life 9.Older Women, Long-term Marriage and Care 10.Loss and Change: Women's Experience of Grief 11. Conclusion

O autorze

Bernard, Miriam; Harding Davies, Val; Machin, Linda; Phillips, Judith