Revisioning Aging : Empowerment of Older Women

, by Onyx, Jenny; Leonard, Rosemary; Reed, Rosslyn

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ISBN: 9780820441313 | 0820441317
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/1/1999

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Section One: Contextualizing Aging

(56)

Prologue

(6)

Chapter 1: Growing Older, Getting Better: Than What?

(14)

Noeleen O'Beirne

Chapter 2: Preliminary Overview: "The Facts"

(18)

Jenny Onyx

Chapter 3: Not Gerontology, but--

(18)

Margaret Sargent

Section Two: Deconstructing Age

(116)

Introduction

(4)

Chapter 4: The Invisible Woman: Older Women Workers

(16)

Rosslyn Reed

Chapter 5: Unpaid Work: Grasshopper Accusations and the Threat to Social Capital

(16)

Rosemary Leonard

Chapter 6: What Does Retirement Mean for Women

(16)

Jenny Onyx

Pam Benton

Chapter 7: The "Docile/Useful" Body of the Older Women

109

(14)

Noeleen O'Beirne

Chapter 8: Aging: Encounters with the Medical Model

123

(18)

Sharyn McGee

Chapter 9: Benevolent Oppression: Experiences of Older Women Aging "Out of Place"

141

(16)

Rhonda Nay

Chapter 10: Separate Lives: Older Women, Connectedness and Well-Being

157

(16)

Chris Wieneke

Aileen Power

Lyn Bevington

Diane Rankins-Smith

Section Three: Revisioning Aging

173

(64)

Introduction

173

(4)

Chapter 11: Which House?

177

(18)

Margaret Sargent

Chapter 12: The Potential for Empowerment from a Life-course Approach

195

(12)

Rosemary Leonard

Chapter 13: The Role of Formal Organizations in the Empowerment of Older Women

207

(12)

Rosemary Leonard

Chapter 14: Reflections on Death/ A Celebration of Aging

219

(18)

Jenny Onyx

References

237

(16)

Index

253

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