Overview

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. The first section contains chapters showing how prevailing social, political, economic, and discursive contexts have shaped the experience of aging for women. The second section looks at specific aspects of older women's lives: work (paid and unpaid), living space, and health. The final section begins a reconstruction of the experience of aging for women presenting positive and empowering images, languages, and actions that have made and will make a difference in women's lives.

Full Product Details

9780820441313

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

The Editors: Jenny Onyx is Associated Professor and Head of School of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. She received her Ph.D. from Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research and publications span a period of thirty years with as many publications. She has an abiding interest in issues of social justice relating to ethnicity, gender, and aging. Rosemary Leonard is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social, Community and Organizational Studies at the University of Western Sydney. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Macquarie University, Sydney. Her current research and publications examine the second half of women's life course, particularly their plans for the future. Rosslyn Reed is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Monash University. She has researched women's employment in traditional and non-traditional occupations and has both teaching and research interests in the areas of anti-discrimination, equal employment opportunity, and affirmative action in organizations.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available