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

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Dedication

Acknowledgments

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SECTION ONE: Contextualizing Aging

Chapter One: Growing Older, Getting Better: Than What?

Chapter Two: Preliminary Overview: "The Facts"

Chapter Three: Not Gerontology, but --

Endnote

SECTION TWO: Deconstructing Age

Chapter Four: The Invisible Woman: Older Women Workers

Endnotes

Chapter Five: Unpaid Work, Grasshopper Accusations and the Threat to Social Capital

Chapter Six: What Does Retirement Mean for Women?

Chapter Seven: The "Docile/Useful" Body of the Older Woman

Chapter Eight: Aging: Encounters with the Medical Model

Chapter Nine: Benevolent Oppression: Experiences of Older Women Aging "Out of Place"

Chapter Ten: Separate Lives: Older Women, Connectedness, and Well-Being

SECTION THREE: Revisioning Aging

Chapter Eleven: Which House

Chapter Twelve: The Potential for Empowerment from a Life-Course Approach

Chapter Thirteen: The Role of Formal Organizations in the Empowerment of Older Women

Chapter Fourteen: Reflections on Death/A Celebration of Aging

Ode to the Older Woman (an affirmation- a celebration)

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Index
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The Other Within Us: Feminist Explorations of Women and Aging
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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Introduction

Notes

Part One: Situating

1: The Double Standard of Aging

2: Portnoy's Mother's Complaints

3: The Plight of Older Black Women

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4: The Feminization of Poverty Among the Elderly

Notes

5: Older Women in the City

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Part Two: Problematizing

6 Friends or Foes: Gerontological and Feminist Theory

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7 Heresy in the Female Body: The Rhetorics of Menopause

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8 Gender, Race, and Class: Beyond the Feminization of Poverty in Later Life

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9: The View from Over the Hill

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10: Adult Daughters and Care for the Elderly

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11 What Setting Limits May Mean: A Feminist Critique of Danielcallahan's Setting Limits

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Part Three: Representing

12 Sunset Boulevard: Fading Stars

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13: Remembering Our Foremothers Older Black Women, Politics of Age, Politics of Survival as Embodied in the Novels of Toni Morrison

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14 Visible Difference: Women Artists and Aging

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15: Time Will Tell

Part Four: Privileging

16: Toward Another Dimension . . .

17: Indian Summer

18: In the Heat of Shadow

19: Mirror of Strength Portrait of Two Chilean Arpilleristas

20: The Space Crone

21: Serenity and Power

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Handbook on Women and Aging
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 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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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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Part I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

One: Sexism and Ageism

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Two: Images of Middle-aged and Older Women: Historical, Cultural, and Personal

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Three: Witches, Widows, Wives, and Workers: The Historiography of Elderly Women in America

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Four: Images of Aging Women through the Ages

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Five: Sagacious, Sinful, or Superfluous? The Social Construction of Older Women

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Part II: Economic Issues

Six: The Economic Status of Older Women

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Seven: Middle-aged and Older Women in the Work Force

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Eight: Retirement and Women

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Part III: Health, Psychological, and Living Issues

Nine: The Health of Older Women: A Diverse Experience

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Ten: Developmental Models of Midlife and Aging in Women: Metaphors for Transcendence and for Individuality in Community

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Eleven: Life Satisfaction and Older Women: Factor Structure Consistency across Age Cohorts

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Twelve: Reminiscence among Older Women

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Thirteen: Suicidal Behavior in Middle-aged and Older Women

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Fourteen: Women Survivors: The Oldest Old

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Fifteen: Religion and Faith Development of Older Women

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Sixteen: Voluntarism among Older Women

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Seventeen: Living Arrangements for Midlife and Older Women

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Part IV: Racial, Ethnic, and Demographic Issues

Eighteen: Midlife and Older Black Women

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Nineteen: Hidden Lives: Aging and Contemporary American Indian Women

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Twenty: Issues and Trends Affecting Asian Americans, Women, and Aging

APPENDIX: ORGANIZATIONS PERTAINING TO ASIAN AMERICANS, WOMEN, AND AGING

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Twenty-One: Chicanas and Aging: Toward Definitions of Womanhood

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Twenty-Two: Rural Older Women

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Part V: Relationships

Twenty-Three: Family Relationships of Midlife and Older Women

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Twenty-Four: Single Women in Later Life

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Twenty-Five: Friendship Patterns among Older Women

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Twenty Six: Older Women and Widowhood

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Twenty-Seven: Women and Caregivers for the Elderly

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Twenty-Eight: Fathers, Daughters, and Caregiving: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Life-Course Social Science

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Twenty-Nine: Conclusions and Research Implications

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Selected Bibliography

Index

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Behavior, Health, and Aging (Chap. 3 "Aging Women, Getting Older, Getting Better?")
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 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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Preface

1: Genetics and Aging

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Acknowledgments

2: Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy for Men and Women in the United States

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Acknowledgments

3: Aging Women, Getting Older, Getting Better?

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4: Menopause as a Turning Point in Midlife

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Acknowledgments

5: Changes in the Immune System during Aging

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6: Effects of Chronic Stress on Immune Function and Health in the Elderly

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7: Neuroimmune Interactions: Implications for Aging and Immunosenescence -- Rodent Models

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8: Immune Functions, Their Psychological Correlates, and Health

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9: Negative Affect and the Disablement Process in Late Life: a Life-Span Control Theory Approach

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10: Psychological Factors, Health, and Disease: the Impact of Aging and the Life Cycle

Acknowledgments

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11: Coping with Chronic Illness among the Elderly: Maintaining Self-Esteem

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12: Sex, Psychosocial Stress, and Atherosclerosis: a Monkey Model

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13: Comparative Effects of Age and Blood Pressure on Neuropsychological Test Performance: the Framingham Study

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14: Uncertain Health Effects of Cholesterol Reduction in the Elderly

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Subject Index
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Being an Older Woman: A Study in the Social Production of Identity
by Isabella Paoletti. 94 pgs.

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Editors' Preface

Prologue

Ackowledgments

1: Introduction

2: Membership Categories in Identity Work

3: When Is an Older Woman

4: Institutional Conflicts and Gender Identification

5: Members' Personal Identities and Institutions

6: Conclusion: Understanding Social Change

Appendix A: Transcript Notations

Appendix B: List of the Data Collected

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective (Part II "The Aging Female in Literature")
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 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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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Aging Male in Literature

Chapter 1: The Dialectic of Aging in Shakespeare's King Lear and the Tempest

Chapter 2: Shakespeare Teaching Geriatrics: Lear and Prospero as Case Studies in Aged Heterogeneity

Chapter 3: Why? versus Why Not?: Potentialities of Aging in Shaw's Back to Methuselah

Chapter 4: Hemingway's Aging Heroes and the Concept of Phronesis

Chapter 5: Bertrand Russell in His Nineties: Aging and the Problem of Biography

Part II: The Aging Female in Literature

Chapter 6: Work, Contentment, and Identity in Aging Women in Literature

Chapter 7: Old Maids and Old Mansions: the Barren Sisters of Hawthorne, Dickens, and Faulkner

Chapter 8: The Aging Artist: the Sad but Instructive Case of Virginia Woolf

Part III: Aging in the Community

Chapter 9: The Sacred Ghost: the Role of the Elder(Ly) in Native American Literature

Chapter 10: Aging and the African-American Community: the Case of Ernest J. Gaines

Chapter 11: Aging and the Continental Community: Good Counsel in the Writings of Two Mature European Princesses, Marguerite de Navarre and Madame Palatine

Chapter 12: Aging and Academe: Caricature or Character

Chapter 13: Aging and the Public Schools: Visits of Charity -- the Young Look at the Old

Part IV: Aging in the Fine and Popular Arts

Chapter 14: Aging and Contemporary Art

Chapter 15: The Return Home: Affirmations and Transformations of Identity in Horton Foote's the Trip to Bountiful

Chapter 16: Animated Gerontophobia: Ageism, Sexism, and the Disney Villainess

Chapter 17: 8½ and Me: the Thirty-Two-Year Difference

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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The Labor Force Participation of Older Women: Retired? Working? Both?, in Monthly Labor Review
by Elizabeth T. Hill. 10 pgs.

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The Information World of Retired Women
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 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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Preface

1: Introduction: Research and Conduct of the Study

6: The Search for Information

7: Social Ties and Networking

Notes

Appendix: Interview Guide

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Gender, Aging, and Subjective Well-Being, in International Journal of Comparative Sociology
by Ronald Inglehart. 19 pgs.

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The Meaning of Mental Health from Elderly Women's Perspectives: A Basis for Health Promotion, in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
by Birgitta Hedelin, Margaretha Strandmark. 8 pgs.

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Women Ageing: Changing Identities, Challenging Myths
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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Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1: Women Ageing

2: 'Women's Work' and the Transition to Retirement

3: Working Carers

4: Our Ageing Selves

5: Menopause

6: Older Women Undergraduates

7: Women's Voices in Bereavement

8: Widowhood in Later Life

9: Older Women, Long-Term Marriage and Care

10: Women Ageing

Bibliography

Index
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Women at Midlife, in Social Work
by Sharon McQuaide. 11 pgs.

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