Revisioning Aging
Subtitle: Empowerment of Older Women (Eruptions, Vol. 4.)
Contributors: Jenny Onyx (Editor); Rosemary Leonard (Editor); Rosslyn Reed (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780820441313
Subjects: Gerontology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Feminism; Social Science; Aging; Feminist theory; Middle aged women; Middle-aged women; Older women; Social aspects; Sociology
Description: "Revisioning Aging is a multidisciplinary collection of writings that challenges the dominant social constructions that devalue and discriminate against older women. The aim of this book is to deconstruct the limiting images, attitudes, discourses, and practices surrounding aging that currently prevail and to construct alternative diverse options and possibilities for older women to participate in creating more equitable social and material conditions for themselves.

This is achieved by bringing together different disciplinary insights in a range of forms and styles that are presented in the book's three sections."--BOOK JACKET.