Women ageing : changing identities, challenging myths /

Women ageing : changing identities, challenging myths /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description:	xvi, 207 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Older women. Middle-aged women. Aging -- Social aspects. Aging -- Social aspects. Middle-aged women. Older women.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4432055

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Other authors / contributors:	Bernard, Miriam.
ISBN:	0415189438 0415189446 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-197) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. The Change: Challenges and Opportunities 3 Working Women: Paid and Unpaid Carers
4. Something for Me: Women Aged 50 Plus in Higher Education
5. Our Ageing Selves: Midlife Professionals Reflect on Growing Older
6. From Pin Money to Needlepoint
7. Widowhood in Later Life
8. Love and Romance in Later Life
9. Older Women, Long-term Marriage and Care
10. Loss and Change: Women's Experience of Grief
11. Conclusion