Connection, Compromise, and Control

Canadian Women Discuss Midlife
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-541793-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press Canada

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

This text provides discussion of the female life cycle based on in-depth interviews with 150 diverse women at various stages in their lives, including women from visible minorities, lesbians, women with disabilities, and women living in poverty. In this text, particular attention will be paid to issues of: baby boomers; the women's movement; work and economic security; caregiving; health and well-being; family and intimacy; and structure, culture, and agency. All the chapters underline the need for a new perspective that incorporates the historical and generational shifts in women's lives and their experience of aging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mandell, Nancy

Wilson, Susannah

Duffy, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: Midlife Under Siege: Baby Boomers Confront Aging

- 2: Structure, Culture and Agency in the Study of Midlife Women

- 3: Midlife Women and the Women's Movement

- 4: Family and Intimacy: Looking for Connection

- 5: Caregiving: The Lifelong Compromise

- 6: Work and Economic Control

- 7: Health and Well-being

- 8: Conclusion: Ambivalence and an Ambiguous Future

- Appendix

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Mandell is Associate Professor in Sociology and Women's Studies at York University.

Mary Rubio is a Humanities Ph. D graduate from McMaster University. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph. Mary is a leading Montgomery scholar and has collaborated on writing and editing projects since 1975 at the University of Guelph with fellow professor, Elizabeth Waterston.

Ann Duffy is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Sociology at Brock University.