| Description |
ix, 353 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Age matters / Toni M. Calasanti and Kathleen F. Slevin -- The personal as political : the legacy of Betty Friedan / Ruth E. Ray -- The lengthening list of oppressions : age relations and the feminist study of inequality / Neal King -- From androgyny to androgens : resexing the aging body / Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz -- Graying the cyborg : new directions in feminist analyses of aging, science, and technology / Kelly Joyce and Laura Mamo -- Intimate relationships : learning from later life experience / Ingrid Arnet Connidis -- Aging and gender in families : a very grand opening / Katherine R. Allen and Alexis J. Walker -- Intersectionality and age relations : unpaid care work and Chicanas / Anna Zajicek ... [et al.] -- Gendered ageism/age(ed) sexism : the case of unemployed older workers / Julie Ann McMullin and Ellie D. Berger -- Sleep, gender, and aging : temporal perspectives in the mid-to-later life transition / Jenny Hislop and Sara Arber -- The embodied experiences of old lesbians / Kathleen F. Slevin -- Gender and old age : lessons from spousal care work / Toni M. Calasanti -- Maintaining manliness in later life : hegemonic masculinities and emphasized femininities / Robert Meadows and Kate Davidson -- On being an aging woman / Martha B. Holstein. |
| Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects.
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Ageism.
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Old age.
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Older women.
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Feminism.
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| Added Author |
Calasanti, Toni M.
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Slevin, Kathleen F., 1947-
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| ISBN |
0415952239 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780415952231 hardback alkaline paper |
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0415952247 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780415952248 paperback alkaline paper |
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