Women Ageing provides a better understanding of what ageing is like for women and challenges the myths which have grown up around the ageing process. Blending the scholarly, the personal and the political, it reveals the range of strategies and identities women adopt to manage the transitions of the second half of the life course. In doing so it uncovers not only the commonalities and the similarities between mid-life and older women, but also some of the variation and diversity relating to ethnicity and race, class, disability and sexual orientation.
Women Ageing makes...

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...