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Author:   Nancy Folbre ,  Lois Shaw ,  Agneta Stark
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780415396769

ISBN 10:   041539676
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   28 September 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender and Aging. Articles: Warm Hands in Cold Age - On the Need of a New World Order of Care. Eldercare in the United States: Inadequate, Inequitable, but Not a Lost Cause. Gender, Aging, and the Evolving Arab Patriarchal Contract. Australia’s ‘Other’ Gender Wage Gap: Baby Boomers and Compulsory Superannuation Accounts. Social Assistance, Gender, and the Aged in South Africa. Race, Ethnicity, and Social Security Retirement Age in the US. Linking Benefits to Marital Status: Race and Social Security in the US. Explorations: Gender and Aging: Cross-National Contrasts. 1. Poverty and Income Maintenance in Old Age: A Cross-National View of Low Income Older Women. 2. Growing Old in the US: Gender and Income Adequacy. 3. Gender and Aging in South Korea

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