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Revisioning Aging: Empowerment of Older Women » Read Now
by Jenny Onyx, Rosemary Leonard, Rosslyn Reed. 259 pgs.

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...1. Aged women. 2. Middle aged women. 3. Aging -- Social aspects. 4. Feminist...colleagues who were part of our Women and Aging Research Network and integral...Oppression:...
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The Other Within Us: Feminist Explorations of Women and Aging » Read Now
by Marilyn Pearsall. 280 pgs.

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"This collection will be of interest ... to those working in women's studies or gerontology." Publishers Weekly "Enables us to reimagine the possibilities for aging for women from a wide range of perspectives & experiences." Charlotte Bunch Executive director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University
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Handbook on Women and Aging » Read Now
by Jean M. Coyle. 484 pgs.

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Statistics show that women live longer than men, and that they constitute a substantial majority of the North American population over age 50. But lack of empirical data on aging women has helped to perpetuate numerous myths and stereotypes. This reference provides a comprehensive overview of...
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Statistics show that women live longer than men, and that they constitute a substantial majority of the North American population over age 50. But lack of empirical data on aging women has helped to perpetuate numerous myths and stereotypes. This reference provides a comprehensive overview of current research on women and aging. Chapters are written by expert contributors and are grouped in sections devoted to historical and theoretical views, economic concerns, health and lifestyle issues, demographic information, and relationships. Chapters reflect research on women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, the particular needs of the rural elderly, the problem of sexism and ageism, and the impact of significant life events, such as retirement and widowhood. Chapters cite current research, and the volume closes with a selected bibliography of major studies.
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Women, Feminism, and Aging » Read Now
by Colette V. Browne. 314 pgs.

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...Reconceptualization of Empowerment for Aging Women 218 Older Women and...Conclusions 225 PART IV: Aging Women and Feminist Theory Chapter...built on societys devaluation of...
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Behavior, Health, and Aging (Chap. 3 "Aging Women, Getting Older, Getting Better?") » Read Now
by Stephen B. Manuck, Richard Jennings, Bruce S. Rabin, Andrew Baum. 265 pgs.

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A dramatic shift in the average age of the U.S. population and the increasing number of elderly Americans has introduced new and challenging healthcare dilemmas. This book addresses these issues with contributed chapters by the leading authorities in the field of behavioral medicine. It deals with...
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A dramatic shift in the average age of the U.S. population and the increasing number of elderly Americans has introduced new and challenging healthcare dilemmas. This book addresses these issues with contributed chapters by the leading authorities in the field of behavioral medicine. It deals with health and healthcare needs of the elderly by considering basic changes that result from aging and some of the more specific problems that accompany it. Content highlights include a review of the basic tenets of genetics and molecular biology including some of the methods of looking at heritable differences in health and well-being. Quality of life concerns are addressed, including the differences between men and women, as well as other gender issues. Several chapters deal with the effects of aging on immunity. The latter part of the book emphasizes the psychosocial implications of aging on cardiovascular disease. Chronic illness among the elderly is also addressed.
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Being an Older Woman: A Study in the Social Production of Identity » Read Now
by Isabella Paoletti. 94 pgs.

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...Reviews of Population Aging: Europe and North America," older women are not even mentioned...instances in which the women attempt to deconstruct...negative aspects of...
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Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective (Part II "The Aging Female in Literature") » Read Now
by Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker. 256 pgs.

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Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to...
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Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-medical equation of senescence with inevitable senility. Underlying all of this discussion is the firm conviction that cultural texts construct as well as encode the conventional perceptions of their society; that literature, the arts, and the media not only mirror society's mores but can also help to create and enforce them.
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The Labor Force Participation of Older Women: Retired? Working? Both?, in Monthly Labor Review » Read Now
by Elizabeth T. Hill. 10 pgs.

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...women work may not be their idea. (6) Moreover, data from the 1991 Commonwealth Fund Productive Aging Survey indicated that that 19 percent of women older than age 55 who...
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The Information World of Retired Women » Read Now
by Elfreda A. Chatman. 172 pgs.

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Using the profiles of women living in a retirement community, the author explores the information and social worlds of aging women. The focus of the study is the effects of aging on help-seeking behaviors. The author examines ways in which older women search for information. The relationship between...
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Using the profiles of women living in a retirement community, the author explores the information and social worlds of aging women. The focus of the study is the effects of aging on help-seeking behaviors. The author examines ways in which older women search for information. The relationship between help-seeking behaviors and information policy is extensively discussed. The role that information professionals can play in bringing information to populations, such as the one examined, adds insight to the studies of information use and user needs.
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Gender, Aging, and Subjective Well-Being, in International Journal of Comparative Sociology » Read Now
by Ronald Inglehart. 19 pgs.

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...Gender, aging, and subjective well-being...men happier than women? Almost every study...Percentage of women in...Sheila M. 2000. Aging Beauty: The Adaptive Reconstruction...
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The Meaning of Mental Health from Elderly Women's Perspectives: A Basis for Health Promotion, in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care » Read Now
by Birgitta Hedelin, Margaretha Strandmark. 8 pgs.

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...METHODS. Qualitative interviews with 16 women between the ages of 71 and 92. The data...health, phenomenology, psychiatric nursing, women Mental illness is an extensive...
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Women Ageing: Changing Identities, Challenging Myths » Read Now
by Miriam Bernard, Val Harding Davies, Linda Machin, Judith Phillips. 207 pgs.

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Women and Aging 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 life-course.
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Women at Midlife, in Social Work » Read Now
by Sharon McQuaide. 11 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...portrayals. Negative images of aging women abound and, without alternative...contradict the over-the-hill image of aging women, employers are more likely to pass...Greet...