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Gender and ageing : changing roles and relationships / edited by Sara Arber, Kate Davidson and Jay Ginn.

Colaborador(es): Tipo de material: TextoTextoDetalles de publicación: Maidenhead ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2003.Descripción: xi, 213 páginas : ilustraciones, gráficas ; 24 cmTipo de contenido:
  • texto
Tipo de medio:
  • sinmedio
Tipo de soporte:
  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 0335213197 (pbk.)
  • 9780335213191 (pbk.)
  • 0335213200 (hbk.)
  • 9780335213207 (hbk.)
Tema(s): Formatos físicos adicionales: Online version:: Gender and ageing.Clasificación LoC:
  • HQ 1061 G46.2003
Formatos físicos adicionales:
  • Disponible también en World Wide Web.
Contenidos:
Changing approaches to gender and later life / Sara Arber, Kate Davidson and Jay Ginn -- Masculinities and care work in old age / Toni Calasanti -- New identities in ageing: perspectives on age, gender and life after work / Eileen Fairhurst -- Reconceptualizing intimacy and ageing: living apart together / Klas Borell and Sofie Ghazanfareeon Karlsson -- Sex and ageing: a gendered issue / Merryn Gott and Sharron Hinchliff -- Bringing outsiders in: gay and lesbian family ties over the life course / Ingrid Arnet Connidis -- Social networks and social well-being of older men and women living alone / Jenny de Jong Gierveld -- Getting by without a spouse: living arrangements and support of older people in Italy and Britain / Cecilia Tomassini, Karen Glaser and Janet Askham -- Sharing the crust? Gender, partnership status and inequalities in pension accumulation / Debora Price and Jay Ginn -- Re-examining gender and marital status: material well-being and social involvement / Sara Arber, Debora Price, Kate Davidson and Kim Perren -- Exploring the social worlds of older men / Kate Davidson, Tom Daly and Sara Arber -- Sleep as a social act: a window on gender roles and relationships / Jenny Hislop and Sara Arber.
Resumen: This text emphasizes changing gender roles and relationships, gender identity and an examination of masculinities in midlife and later life. It covers the need to reconceptualize partnership status, in order to understand the implications of both widowhood and divorce for older women and men.
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Changing approaches to gender and later life / Sara Arber, Kate Davidson and Jay Ginn -- Masculinities and care work in old age / Toni Calasanti -- New identities in ageing: perspectives on age, gender and life after work / Eileen Fairhurst -- Reconceptualizing intimacy and ageing: living apart together / Klas Borell and Sofie Ghazanfareeon Karlsson -- Sex and ageing: a gendered issue / Merryn Gott and Sharron Hinchliff -- Bringing outsiders in: gay and lesbian family ties over the life course / Ingrid Arnet Connidis -- Social networks and social well-being of older men and women living alone / Jenny de Jong Gierveld -- Getting by without a spouse: living arrangements and support of older people in Italy and Britain / Cecilia Tomassini, Karen Glaser and Janet Askham -- Sharing the crust? Gender, partnership status and inequalities in pension accumulation / Debora Price and Jay Ginn -- Re-examining gender and marital status: material well-being and social involvement / Sara Arber, Debora Price, Kate Davidson and Kim Perren -- Exploring the social worlds of older men / Kate Davidson, Tom Daly and Sara Arber -- Sleep as a social act: a window on gender roles and relationships / Jenny Hislop and Sara Arber.

This text emphasizes changing gender roles and relationships, gender identity and an examination of masculinities in midlife and later life. It covers the need to reconceptualize partnership status, in order to understand the implications of both widowhood and divorce for older women and men.

Disponible también en World Wide Web.