Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781322034638
Subjects: Older women; History; Old age; Aging; Femmes âgées; Histoire; Vieillesse; Vieillissement; Aspect social; Social aspects
Table of contents: title: 1. Strategies of poor aged women and widows in sixteenth-century London / Claire S. Schen; title: 2. Who most needs to marry? Ageing and inequality among women and men in early modern Norwich / Margaret Pelling; title: 3. Old age and menopause in rural women of early mordern Suffolk / Lynn Botelho; title: 4. 'I feel myself decay apace' : old age in the diary of Lady Sarah Cowper (1644-1720) / Anne Kugler; title: 5. Old maids : the lifecycle of single women in early modern England / Amy M. Froide; title: 6. The old woman's home in eighteenth-century England / Susannah Ottaway; title: 7. The residence patterns of elderly English women in comparative perspective / Richard Wall; title: 8. Old and incapable? Louisa Twining and elderly woman in Victorian Britain / Theresa Deane; title: 9. 'An inheritance of fear' : older women in the twentieth-century countryside / Stephen Hussey; title: 10. Old women in twentieth-century Britain / Pat Thane.