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Gender and ageing : changing roles and relationships

This book is a follow-up to Arber and Ginn's award winning "Connecting Gender and Ageing" (1995). It contains original chapters from eminent writers on gender and ageing, addressing newly emergent areas within gender and ageing, including gender identity and masculinity in later life. Early work on gender and ageing was dominated by a focus on older women. The present collection breaks with this tradition by emphasizing changing gender roles and relationships, gender identity and an examination of masculinities in midlife and later life. A key theme running through the book is the need to reconceptualize partnership status, in order to understand the implications for women and men of widowhood, divorce and new forms of relationships, such as Living Apart Together (LAT-relationships). Another is the influence of socio-economic circumstances on how ageing is experienced and transitions are negotiated. The book illustrates new ways of thinking about old age and indicates policy implications, especially concerning the nature of service provision for older people. It will change the ways in which social scientists conceptualize later life.; Written with undergraduate students and researchers in mind, "Gender and Ageing: Changing Roles and Relationships" will be an invaluable text for those studying social gerontology, sociology of later life, gender studies, health and community care and social policy
eBook, English, 2003
Open University Press, Maidenhead, England, 2003
1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) : illustrations
9780335224067, 9781280950605, 9786610950607, 0335224067, 1280950609, 6610950601
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List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsChanging Approaches to Gender and Later LifeMasculinities and Care Work in Old AgeNew Identities in Ageing: Perspectives on Age, Gender and Life After WorkReconceptualizing Intimacy and Ageing: Living Apart TogetherSex and Ageing: A Gendered IssueBringing Outsiders In: Gay and Lesbian Family Ties Over the LifecourseSocial Networks and Social Well-Being of Older Men and Women Living AloneGetting by Without a Spouse: Living Arrangements and Support of Older People in ItalySharing the Crust? Gender, Partnership Status and Inequalities in Pension AccumulationRe-examining Gender and Marital Status: Material Well-Being and Social InvolvementExploring the Social Worlds of Older MenSleep as a Social ActIndex.
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010