Women and Ageing in British Society Since 1500

This new collection of essays examines the lives of older women in Britain from 1500 to the present and gives a fascinating insight into the lives of elderly women from a range of different social strata and different times.This latest book in theWomen and Men in Historyseries will break down some widely held assumptions revealing attitudes towards the aging process and challenging common beliefs and stereotypes. The book sheds light on the history of family relationships, welfare provision, changing female self-images and the structure of the family in pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial Britain and, in doing so, the book can also modify our understanding of wider society. The essays draw on women's diaries, autobiographies, social surveys, mass observation and a fascinating variety of other sources.This an important book for anyone interested in sociology, history, social policy, gerontology or women's studies. Also available in Hardcover - 0-582-32901-9 $79.95Y

List of Figures and Tables

vii

List of Contributors

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

1

(12)

Lynn Botelho

Pat Thane

Strategies of poor aged women and widows in sixteenth-century London

13

(18)

Claire S. Schen

Who most needs to marry? Ageing and inequality among women and men in early modern Norwich

31

(12)

Margaret Pelling

Old age and menopause in rural women of early modern Suffolk

43

(23)

Lynn Botelho

'I feel myself decay apace': Old age in the diary of Lady Sarah Cowper (1644--1720)

66

(23)

Anne Kugler

Old maids: the lifecycle of single women in early modern England

89

(22)

Amy M. Froide

The old woman's home in eighteenth-century England

111

(28)

Susannah Ottaway

The residence patterns of elderly English women in comparative perspective

139

(27)

Richard Wall

Old and incapable? Louisa Twining and elderly women in Victorian Britain

166

(20)

Theresa Deane

'An inheritance of fear': older women in the twentieth-century countryside

186

(21)

Stephen Hussey

Old women in twentieth-century Britain

207

(25)

Pat Thane

Bibliographica essay: Older women in Britain since 1500

232

(7)

Lynn Botelho

Pat Thane

Index

239

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Women and Ageing in British Society Since 1500

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