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Revisioning aging : empowerment of older women

Author: Jenny Onyx; Rosemary Leonard; Rosslyn Reed
Publisher: New York : P. Lang, ©1999.
Series: Eruptions, v. 4.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Revisioning Aging is a multidisciplinary collection of writings that challenges the dominant social constructions that devalue and discriminate against older women. The aim of this book is to deconstruct the limiting images, attitudes, discourses, and practices surrounding aging that currently prevail and to construct alternative diverse options and possibilities for older women to participate in creating more
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Revisioning aging.
New York : P. Lang, c1999
(OCoLC)607379285
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jenny Onyx; Rosemary Leonard; Rosslyn Reed
ISBN: 0820441317 9780820441313
OCLC Number: 39256343
Description: xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Sect. 1. Contextualizing Aging. Ch. 1. Growing Older, Getting Better: Than What? / Noeleen O'Beirne. Ch. 2. Preliminary Overview: "The Facts" / Jenny Onyx. Ch. 3. Not Gerontology, but / Margaret Sargent --
Sect. 2. Deconstructing Age. Ch. 4. The Invisible Woman: Older Women Workers / Rosslyn Reed. Ch. 5. Unpaid Work: Grasshopper Accusations and the Threat to Social Capital / Rosemary Leonard. Ch. 6. What Does Retirement Mean for Women / Jenny Onyx and Pam Benton. Ch. 7. The "Docile/Useful" Body of the Older Women / Noeleen O'Beirne. Ch. 8. Aging: Encounters with the Medical Model / Sharyn McGee. Ch. 9. Benevolent Oppression: Experiences of Older Women Aging "Out of Place" / Rhonda Nay. Ch. 10. Separate Lives: Older Women, Connectedness and Well-Being / Chris Wieneke, Aileen Power and Lyn Bevington / [et al.] --
Sect. 3. Revisioning Aging. Ch. 11. Which House? / Margaret Sargent. Ch. 12. The Potential for Empowerment from a Life-course Approach / Rosemary Leonard.
Series Title: Eruptions, v. 4.
Responsibility: edited by Jenny Onyx, Rosemary Leonard and Rosslyn Reed.

Abstract:

"Revisioning Aging is a multidisciplinary collection of writings that challenges the dominant social constructions that devalue and discriminate against older women. The aim of this book is to deconstruct the limiting images, attitudes, discourses, and practices surrounding aging that currently prevail and to construct alternative diverse options and possibilities for older women to participate in creating more equitable social and material conditions for themselves.

This is achieved by bringing together different disciplinary insights in a range of forms and styles that are presented in the book's three sections."--BOOK JACKET.

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