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Author Browne, Colette, 1950-

Title Women, feminism, and aging / Colette V. Browne
Published New York : Springer, [1998]
©1998

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 W'PONDS  305.260973 Bro/Wfa  AVAILABLE
Description xxxvi, 323 pages ; 23 cm
Series Springer series, focus on women
Springer series. Focus on women (Unnumbered)
Contents 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
Subject Older women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Aging -- Psychological aspects.
Aging -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Feminist psychology.
Feminist theory -- United States.
Older women -- Social conditions.
Feminist psychology -- United States.
Aging.
Feminism.
Women.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
LC no. 98010304
ISBN 0826112005