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Women ageing: changing identities, challenging myths
- Editors:
- BERNARD Miriam, et al
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 207p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aims to provide a better understanding of what ageing is like for women and challenges the myths which have grown up around the ageing process. It examines the range of strategies and identities women adopt to manage the transitions of the second half of the life course and uncovers not only the commonalities and similarities between mid life and older women but also some of the variation and diversity relating to ethnicity and race, class, disability and sexual orientation.
Families, violence and social change
- Author:
- MCKIE Linda
- Publisher:
- Open University
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 178p.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
The gendered nature of much violence continues to be ignored in so far as the relationship between masculinities, families and violence are rarely interrogated. This book looks at domestic violence, considering gender, older women and social and economic changes.
Women, resistance and care: an ethnographic study of nursing auxiliary work
- Author:
- LEE-TREWEEK Geraldine
- Journal article citation:
- Work Employment and Society, 11(1), March 1997, pp.47-63.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Paid care work has traditionally been marginalised within the sociology of work. This article argues that this absence needs to be addressed and redressed as paid care is an increasingly important source of employment for women in Britain. This article uses empirical material from a study of work in a nursing home for older people to present an interpretation of the ways in which female nursing auxiliary workers used resistance as an everyday strategy to get through, and exercise some control over, their work. Argues that ethnographic approaches, favoured by sociologists who studied factory labour in the 1970s and 1980s, may prove to be crucial in revealing that care work is real.
Aspects of ageing
- Editors:
- KAIM-CAUDLE Peter, KEITHLEY Jane, MULLENDER Audrey
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains 14 papers written to celebrate the European Year of Older People and Solidarity Between Generations. Issues of ageing are considered from the perspectives of demography, economics, social policy, sociology, community care, Buddhist philosophy, literature and gender studies.
A sociology of mental health and illness
- Authors:
- PILGRIM David, ROGERS Anne
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 254p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Provides an overview of the major aspects of the sociology of mental health and illness. Draws on a range of social theories and methods to illustrate points, provides information organised along class, gender, race and age boundaries, and critically analyses the mental health professions. Looks critically at debates around mental health legislation, and examines organisational aspects of psychiatry. Includes a chapter on community mental health work. Concludes with a discussion of the various ways in which psychiatric patients and their relatives can be understood in their social context.
Health and Canadian society: sociological perspectives
- Editors:
- COBURN David, D'ARCY Carl, TORRANCE George M.
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 648p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between health, health care, and Canadian society. Includes chapters on: health care costs; health status of Canadians; social distribution of health; low income and child health; the impact of aboriginal health interpreters on decision making; women's perspective on chronic illness; cultural constructions of menopausal women in Japan and Canada; role strains and tranquilliser use; gender and depression; the impact of working conditions, social roles and personal characteristics on gender differences in distress; predictors of successful ageing; women in medicine; maternity traditions and contemporary issues in Canada; womens perspectives on informal care of older people; Ontario's public general hospitals; partnership as a new strategy in mental health policy; community participation in Quebec's health system; the limits of health insurance; family policy and health care in Canada, Sweden and the United States; fiscal crisis and the restructuring of Medicare; and the sociology of health in Canada.
Critical approaches to ageing and later life
- Editors:
- JAMIESON Anne, HARPER Sarah, VICTOR Christina
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 205p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Includes papers on: the theoretical basis of social gerontology; critical gerontology; perspectives on culture, ethnicity and ageing in British gerontology; the uses of literature in the study of older people; historical research into ageing, old age and older people; analytical issues in the use of 'memories'; intergenerational relationships; spatiality and age relations; representations of old age in painting and photography; older people, medicine and time; feminist theory and older women; and citizenship theory and old age.
Social problems and the family
- Editors:
- DALLOS Rudi, McLAUGHLIN Eugene
- Publisher:
- Sage/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 286p.,tables,illus.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
A critical examination of how the family is constituted, and its relationship with society as a whole. Includes papers on: domestic violence; child abuse; old age; mental health; juvenile delinquency; poverty; and homelessness.