| Description |
xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Eruptions, 1091-8590 ; vol. 4 |
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Eruptions. 1091-8590 ; vol. 4
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| Contents |
Sect. 1. Contextualizing Aging. Ch. 1. Growing Older, Getting Better: Than What? / Noeleen O'Beirne. Ch. 2. Preliminary Overview: "The Facts" / Jenny Onyx. Ch. 3. Not Gerontology, but / Margaret Sargent -- Sect. 2. Deconstructing Age. Ch. 4. The Invisible Woman: Older Women Workers / Rosslyn Reed. Ch. 5. Unpaid Work: Grasshopper Accusations and the Threat to Social Capital / Rosemary Leonard. Ch. 6. What Does Retirement Mean for Women / Jenny Onyx and Pam Benton. Ch. 7. The "Docile/Useful" Body of the Older Women / Noeleen O'Beirne. Ch. 8. Aging: Encounters with the Medical Model / Sharyn McGee. Ch. 9. Benevolent Oppression: Experiences of Older Women Aging "Out of Place" / Rhonda Nay. Ch. 10. Separate Lives: Older Women, Connectedness and Well-Being / Chris Wieneke, Aileen Power and Lyn Bevington / [et al.] -- Sect. 3. Revisioning Aging. Ch. 11. Which House? / Margaret Sargent. Ch. 12. The Potential for Empowerment from a Life-course Approach / Rosemary Leonard |
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Ch. 13. The Role of Formal Organizations in the Empowerment of Older Women / Rosemary Leonard. Ch. 14. Reflections on Death/A Celebration of Aging / Jenny Onyx |
| Summary |
"Revisioning Aging is a multidisciplinary collection of writings that challenges the dominant social constructions that devalue and discriminate against older women. The aim of this book is to deconstruct the limiting images, attitudes, discourses, and practices surrounding aging that currently prevail and to construct alternative diverse options and possibilities for older women to participate in creating more equitable social and material conditions for themselves. This is achieved by bringing together different disciplinary insights in a range of forms and styles that are presented in the book's three sections."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Women |
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Aged |
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Ageing |
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Work |
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Lifestyle and health |
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Feminism |
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Overseas item |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-252) and index |
| Subject |
Middle-aged women.
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Older women.
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Aging -- Social aspects.
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Feminist theory.
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| Author |
Leonard, Rosemary.
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Reed, Rosslyn E. (Rosslyn Eleanor), 1942-
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Onyx, Jenny, 1941-
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| LC no. |
98026794 |
| ISBN |
0820441317 : |
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