Women in late life : critical perspectives on gender and age /
- Title
- Women in late life : critical perspectives on gender and age / Martha Holstein.
- Published by
- Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- ©2015
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 303 pages; 23 cm.
- 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
- Series statement
- Diversity and aging
- Uniform title
- Diversity and aging.
- Subject
- Contents
- 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?.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.