Expert contributors summarize current research on women and aging.
Foreword
Preface
Introduction by Jean M. Coyle
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Sexism and Ageism by Erdman B. Palmore
Images of Middle-Aged and Older Women: Historical, Cultural, and
Personal by Susan R. Sherman
Witches, Widows, Wives, and Workers: The Historiography of Older
Women in America by Carole Haber
Images of Aging Women through the Years by Mary F. Grizzard
Sagacious, Sinful, or Superfluous?: The Social Construction of
Older Women by Elizabeth W. Markson
Economic Issues
The Economic Status of Older Women by Rose M. Rubin
Middle-Aged and Older Women in the Work Force by John C. Rife
Retirement and Women by Frances M. Carp
Health, Psychological, and Living Issues
The Health of Older Women: A Diverse Experience by Diana J.
Torrez
Developmental Models of Midlife and Aging in Women: Metaphors for
Transcendence and for Individuality in Community by Jan D.
Sinnott
Life Satisfaction and Older Women: Factor Structure Consistency
among Age Cohorts by B. Jan McCulloch
Reminiscence among Older Women by Debra McDonald and Eileen Deges
Curl
Suicidal Behavior in Middle-Aged and Older Women by Nancy J. Osgood
and Marjorie J. Malkin
Women Survivors: The Oldest Old by Sally Bould and Charles F.
Longino
Religion and Faith Development of Older Women by Barbara P.
Payne-Stancil
Voluntarism Among Older Women by Winifred Dowling
Living Arrangements for Midlife and Older Women by Frances M.
Carp
Racial, Ethnic, and Demographic Issues
Midlife and Older Black Women by Penny A. Ralston
Hidden Lives: Aging and Contemporary American Indian Women by
Robert John, Patrice H. Blanchard, and Catherine Hagan Hennessy
Issues and Trends Affecting Asian Americans, Women, and Aging by
Darlene Yee
Chicanas and Aging: Toward Definitions of Womanhood by Elisa
Facio
Rural Older Women by Vira R. Kivett
Relationships
Family Relationships of Midlife and Older Women by Jean Pearson
Scott
Single Women in Later Life by Richard L. Newtson and Pat M.
Keith
Friendship Patterns Among Older Women by Rebecca G. Adams
Older Women and the Experience of Widowhood by Julia Bradsher
Women and Caregivers for the Elderly by Sally Bould
Fathers, Daughters, and Caregiving: Perspectives from
Psychoanalysis and Life-Course Social Science by Bertram J.
Cohler
Conclusions and Research Implications by Jean M. Coyle
Bibliography
Index
JEAN M. COYLE is President of Jean Coyle Associates, a gerontological consulting firm in Alexandria, Virginia. She founded the first academic gerontology program in the state of Louisiana in 1976 and has taught at universities throughout the United States. She has been Secretary of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, National President of Sigma Phi Omega gerontology honor society, and a founder and president of the Southwest Society on Aging. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the author of Women and Aging: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (1989) and Families and Aging: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (1991), both published by Greenwood Press.
?"This is a very sound collection of essays on a wide variety of
topics relating to older women in the United States. The essays are
uniformly concise..."?-Contemporary Gerontology
?"This unique work belongs in every academic reference collection,
as well as all other collections with materials on women's studies
and aging."?-Reference and User Services Quarterly
""This is a very sound collection of essays on a wide variety of
topics relating to older women in the United States. The essays are
uniformly concise...""-Contemporary Gerontology
""This unique work belongs in every academic reference collection,
as well as all other collections with materials on women's studies
and aging.""-Reference and User Services Quarterly
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