Revisioning Aging
Empowerment of Older Women
Will be published approx. on 1. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
259 pages
978-0-8204-4131-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Persons
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.
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.
Content
Contents: Noeleen O'Beirne: Growing Older, Getting Better: Than What? - Jenny Onyx: Preliminary Overview: «The Facts» - Margaret Sargent: Not Gerontology, but - Rosslyn Reed: The Invisible Woman: Older Women Workers - Rosemary Leonard: Unpaid Work: Grasshopper Accusations and the Threat to Social Capital - Jenny Onyx/Pam Benton: What Does Retirement Mean for Women - Noeleen O'Beirne: The «Docile/Useful» Body of the Older Women - Sharyn McGee: Aging: Encounters with the Medical Model - Rhonda Nay: Benevolent Oppression: Experiences of Older Women Aging «Out of Place» - Chris Wieneke/Aileen Power/Lyn Bevington/Diane Rankins-Smith: Separate Lives: Older Women, Connectedness and Well-Being - Margaret Sargent: Which House? - Rosemary Leonard: The Potential for Empowerment from a Life-course Approach - Rosemary Leonard: The Role of Formal Organizations in the Empowerment of Older Women - Jenny Onyx: Reflections on Death / A Celebration of Aging.