Age matters
Subtitle: realigning feminist thinking
By: edited by Toni M. Calasanti and Kathleen F. Slevin
Contributors: Calasanti, Toni M; Slevin, Kathleen F., 1947-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780415952231; 9780415952248
Subjects: Aging -- Social aspects; Ageism; Old age; Older women; Feminism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Age matters / Toni M. Calasanti and Kathleen F. Slevin; title: The personal as political : the legacy of Betty Friedan / Ruth E. Ray; title: The lengthening list of oppressions : age relations and the feminist study of inequality / Neal King; title: From androgyny to androgens : resexing the aging body / Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz; title: Graying the cyborg : new directions in feminist analyses of aging, science, and technology / Kelly Joyce and Laura Mamo; title: Intimate relationships : learning from later life experience / Ingrid Arnet Connidis; title: Aging and gender in families : a very grand opening / Katherine R. Allen and Alexis J. Walker; title: Intersectionality and age relations : unpaid care work and Chicanas / Anna Zajicek ... [et al.]; title: Gendered ageism/age(ed) sexism : the case of unemployed older workers / Julie Ann McMullin and Ellie D. Berger; title: Sleep, gender, and aging : temporal perspectives in the mid-to-later life transition / Jenny Hislop and Sara Arber; title: The embodied experiences of old lesbians / Kathleen F. Slevin; title: Gender and old age : lessons from spousal care work / Toni M. Calasanti; title: Maintaining manliness in later life : hegemonic masculinities and emphasized femininities / Robert Meadows and Kate Davidson; title: On being an aging woman / Martha B. Holstein