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Age matters : realigning feminist thinking / edited by Toni M. Calasanti and Kathleen F. Slevin

Published
New York : Routledge, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 353 pages)
Additional Creators
Calasanti, Toni M. and Slevin, Kathleen F., 1947-
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Contents
Introduction: Age matters / Toni M. Calasanti and Kathleen F. Slevin -- The personal as political : the legacy of Betty Friedan / Ruth E. Ray -- The lengthening list of oppressions : age relations and the feminist study of inequality / Neal King -- From androgyny to androgens : resexing the aging body / Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz -- Graying the cyborg : new directions in feminist analyses of aging, science, and technology / Kelly Joyce and Laura Mamo -- Intimate relationships : learning from later life experience / Ingrid Arnet Connidis -- Aging and gender in families : a very grand opening / Katherine R. Allen and Alexis J. Walker -- Intersectionality and age relations : unpaid care work and Chicanas / Anna Zajicek [and others] -- Gendered ageism/age(ed) sexism : the case of unemployed older workers / Julie Ann McMullin and Ellie D. Berger -- Sleep, gender, and aging : temporal perspectives in the mid-to-later life transition / Jenny Hislop and Sara Arber -- The embodied experiences of old lesbians / Kathleen F. Slevin -- Gender and old age : lessons from spousal care work / Toni M. Calasanti -- Maintaining manliness in later life : hegemonic masculinities and emphasized femininities / Robert Meadows and Kate Davidson -- On being an aging woman / Martha B. Holstein.
Summary
This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power relations interface with race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation. Serious theorizing of old age and age relations to gender represents the next frontier of feminist scholarship. In this proposed volume, leading national and international feminist scholars of aging take first steps in this d.
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ISBN
9780203943434 (electronic bk.)
0203943430 (electronic bk.)
9780415952231
9780415952248
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Kerry and Janice (Harms) Kissinger Libraries Excellence Endowment
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