Older Widows And The Life Course
Subtitle: Multiple Narratives Of Hidden Lives (New Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780754640011
Subjects: Elderly; Family & relationships; Women's studies; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Social Science; Sociology; Widowhood; Older women; Death & Dying; Gender Studies; Sociology - General; Widows
First sentence: I first became interested in the 'lived' experience of older widows at the beginning of the 1990s as a result of a number of encounters in both my public, professional life and my private, domestic life.