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Women ageing : changing identities, challenging myths / edited by Miriam Bernard ... [et al.]

Contributor(s): Bernard, Miriam.
Publisher: London : Routledge, c2000Description: xvi, 207 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0415189438.Subject(s): Aged women | Aging -- Social aspects | Middle aged womenDDC classification: 305.244
Contents:
List of illustrations. - List contributors. - Ackowledgement. - Foreword. - 1. Women ageing : changing identities, challenging myths / Miriam Bernard. - 2. Women's work and the transition to retirement. - 3. Working carers : caring workers / Judith Phillips. - 4. Our ageing selves : reflections on growing older / Miriam Bernard. - 5. Menopause : a time of private change to a mature identity / Gillian Granville. - 6. Older women undergraduates : choices and challenges / Patsy Marshall. - 7. Women's voices in bereavement / Linda Machin. - 8. Widowhood in later life / Pat Chambers. - 9. Older women, long-term marriage and care / Mo Ray. - 10. Women ageing : changing policy, challenging practice / Judith Phillips. - Bibliography. - Index.
Summary: Women ageing provides a better understanding of what ageing is like for women and challenges the myths which have grown up around the ageing process. Blending the scholarly, the personal and the political, it reveals the range of strategies and identities women adopt to manage the transitions of the second half of the lifecourse. In doing so it uncovers not only the commonalities and similarities between midlife and older women, but also some of the variation and diversity relating to ethnicity and race, class, disability and sexual orientation. Women ageing makes the ordinary lives of ordinary women as, in this instance, they grow older more visible. Its findings have important implications for policy and practice. All those studying or working with older people will find it an illuminating text. - Front page of t.p.
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List of illustrations. - List contributors. - Ackowledgement. - Foreword. - 1. Women ageing : changing identities, challenging myths / Miriam Bernard. - 2. Women's work and the transition to retirement. - 3. Working carers : caring workers / Judith Phillips. - 4. Our ageing selves : reflections on growing older / Miriam Bernard. - 5. Menopause : a time of private change to a mature identity / Gillian Granville. - 6. Older women undergraduates : choices and challenges / Patsy Marshall. - 7. Women's voices in bereavement / Linda Machin. - 8. Widowhood in later life / Pat Chambers. - 9. Older women, long-term marriage and care / Mo Ray. - 10. Women ageing : changing policy, challenging practice / Judith Phillips. - Bibliography. - Index.

Women ageing provides a better understanding of what ageing is like for women and challenges the myths which have grown up around the ageing process. Blending the scholarly, the personal and the political, it reveals the range of strategies and identities women adopt to manage the transitions of the second half of the lifecourse. In doing so it uncovers not only the commonalities and similarities between midlife and older women, but also some of the variation and diversity relating to ethnicity and race, class, disability and sexual orientation. Women ageing makes the ordinary lives of ordinary women as, in this instance, they grow older more visible. Its findings have important implications for policy and practice. All those studying or working with older people will find it an illuminating text. - Front page of t.p.