The Shady Side of Fifty
Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States
1st Edition
Published on 19. March 2008
352 pages
978-0-7735-7461-8 (ISBN)
Description
A breakthrough study of age and old age in North America - both as a concept and as lived experience.
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03/2008
Queen's School of Policy Studies
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Dillon Lisa:
Lisa Dillon is associate professor, département de démographie, Université de Montréal.Lisa Dillon is associate professor, département de démographie, Université de Montréal.
Lisa Dillon is associate professor, département de démographie, Université de Montréal.Lisa Dillon is associate professor, département de démographie, Université de Montréal.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Organization of Age: Age and Old Age in the Canadian and US Censuses, 1870-1901
- 3 The Expression of Age: Age(Mis)reporting in the Canadian and US Censuses
- 4 Ambiguity and Discontinuity in the Lives of Elderly Women
- 5 Thresholds of Old Age among Men
- 6 Grandmothers and Grandfathers
- 7 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
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- F
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