Women Ageing: Changing Identities, Challenging Myths

By: Linda Machin and Judith Phillips and Miriam Bernard and Val Harding Davies

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Synopsis: 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 life course. In doing so it uncovers not only the commonalities and the similarities between mid-life 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 224 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781134657681
Related ISBNs:: 9780415189439, 9780415189446, 9780203977392
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 05/09/23
Copyrighted By:: Miriam Bernard, Judith Phillips, Linda Machin, Val Harding Davies
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Miriam Bernard
Edited by:: Val Harding Davies
Edited by:: Linda Machin
Edited by:: Judith Phillips