Fundamentals of Feminist Gerontology
Contributors: J. Dianne Garner (Editor); Dianne J. Garner (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press; Haworth Press Inc.
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780789007629
Subjects: Elderly; Geriatric medicine; Women's studies; Social Science; Feminist theory; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - General; Aging; Gerontology; Older women
First sentence: We have systematically denigrated old women, kept them out of the mainstream of productive life, judged them primarily in terms of failing capacities and functions, and found them pitiful.