Introduction: Feminism and Gerontology: A Feminist Life-Span Perspective on Aging -- Ch. 1. Women's Status in Later Life -- Ch. 2. Liberal Feminist and Cultural Feminist Theories and Aging -- Ch. 3. Multicultural and Postmodern Feminist Theories and Aging -- Ch. 4. Radical and Socialist Feminist Theories and Aging -- Ch. 5. Present Strategies for Equality: A Feminist Critique -- Ch. 6. A Feminist Life-Span Perspective on Aging -- Ch. 7. A Feminist Age Critique of Present Paradigms and Policies -- Ch. 8. Empowerment and Older Women -- Ch. 9. Thoughts Toward a New Epistemology of Women and Aging -- Ch. 10. Recreating Visions for Older Women: Some Concluding Thoughts
Summary
In this volume, Dr. Browne outlines a new vision for understanding older women and their place in society. The author draws together the major themes of feminist writers and thinkers and develops alternatives to the present "devaluing" of older women - reconceptualizing what growing older can mean to women. She suggests a number of strategies to improve the lives of older women and, ultimately, looks to a new epistemology of women and age for a more respectful vision of women - and men - in the later years. The volume's style will appeal to professionals and students in social work and sociology
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-309) and index