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Women and Aging: An International, Intersectional Power Perspective

Women and Aging: An International, Intersectional Power Perspective

Muhlbauer, Varda
Chrisler, Joan C.
Denmark, Florence L.

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General Gender StudiesGeneral PsychologySexuality

ISBN10: 3319093053
ISBN13: 9783319093055
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 3 2014
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female elders as a group are marginalized as dependent, declining and unimportant.

Women and Aging surveys the evolving sociopolitical landscape in an era still struggling with gender and age discrimination. This insightful volume recasts familiar concepts such as social roles, appearance, health, sexuality and transition through the related lenses of empowerment/restraint and quality of life/well-being for a deeper understanding of the disparities that exist both with men and within their own gender. Two especially relevant questions emerge from this framework: how women over 60 are contributing to the current climate of societal change and how these positive developments can improve the lives of older women as a whole. Featured topics analyze the wider implications of older women's experiences as family members, sensual and sexual beings, drivers of economies and members of a diverse population worldwide:

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