Women in late life : critical perspectives on gender and age / Martha Holstein.
2015
305.262 H757w 2015
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Title
Women in late life : critical perspectives on gender and age / Martha Holstein.
Author
ISBN
9781442222861 (cloth : alk. paper)
1442222867 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442222878 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1442222875 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781442222885 (electronic)
1442222883
9781442222885
1442222867 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442222878 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1442222875 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781442222885 (electronic)
1442222883
9781442222885
Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Language
English
Description
xi, 303 pages ; 23 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
40024799331
Call Number
305.262 H757w 2015
System Control No.
(OCoLC)898092786
(OCoLC)898092786
(OCoLC)898092786
Summary
"Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and aging, including prevailing but problematic cultural expectations, body image, ageism, the experience of chronic illness, threats to Social Security, and the very possibility of a secure retirement while challenging a long-term care system that disadvantages women. Author Martha Holstein blends personal narrative and interviews with critique and proposals aimed at resisting damaging inequities resulting from being simultaneously old and a woman."--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
pt. I The body and beyond
1. What do you see when you look at me? : women, aging, and our bodies
2. Ageism : you're only as old as you feel and other fictions
3. The "new" old age : from productive aging to anti-aging and everything in between
4. Disruptions and repair : identity and chronic illness
pt. II Aging women in contemporary society
5. A looming dystopia : feminism, aging, and community-based long-term care
6. Retirement : in pursuit of women's economic security
7. Beyond rational control : reflections on end-of-life care
pt. III I'm an old lady and damn proud of it (Maggie Kuhn)
8. Resistance and change : where to from here?
1. What do you see when you look at me? : women, aging, and our bodies
2. Ageism : you're only as old as you feel and other fictions
3. The "new" old age : from productive aging to anti-aging and everything in between
4. Disruptions and repair : identity and chronic illness
pt. II Aging women in contemporary society
5. A looming dystopia : feminism, aging, and community-based long-term care
6. Retirement : in pursuit of women's economic security
7. Beyond rational control : reflections on end-of-life care
pt. III I'm an old lady and damn proud of it (Maggie Kuhn)
8. Resistance and change : where to from here?
Series
Diversity and aging.
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