Ageing in a gendered world : women´s issues and identities.
- Santo Domingo : INSTRAW, 1999.
- 391 p. : il., diagrs. ; 23 cm.
International initiatives on ageing / Women and old-age income security in the United States / Women in the development of the Japanese welfare state / Women's pensions and the impact of privatization in Britain / Life-cycle income and motherhood: simulations for British women of the 1990s / The effect of disadvantages in early career on later career outcomes: a Canadian case study / Gender-based barriers to career development in Australia / Caring women, cared-for women: the discourse of care-giving in Italy / Repeating what you sow? Older women, housing and family dynamics in urban Mexico / Family Support Systems and Older Women in Sub-Saharan Africa / Older women in transitions in Estonia: continuing care-givers / Old age, gender and marginality in Peru: development for the elderly / Caring for the care-givers: challenges for Italian social policy / Gendered aspects of caring for older persons in Europe: policy data requirements / Antony de Bono -- Laura Katz Olson -- Misa Izuhara -- Jay Ginn and Sara Arber -- Hugh Davies, Heather Joshi and Romana Peronaci -- Isik Urla Zeytinoglu and Caroline L. Weber -- Russell Rimmer -- Isabella Paoletti -- Ann Varley and Maribel Blasco -- Irene Zeilinger -- Silva Tedre and Tiami Tulva -- Fiona Clark -- Giovanni Lamura, Maria Gabriella Melchiorre, Massimo Mengani -- Tatiana Sikoska Introduction: ageing as a women's issue Section 1: ageing and pension policies in Gendered society -- Section 2 : Care and Care-giving in family and community -- Identity, culture and older women / Silencing the voices of older women / Gendered living environments for the elderly in Turkey and Sweden / Navigating in unknown waters: Canadian widows negotiating relationsh / Age, migration, gender and empowerment: older migrant women in Europe / Noeleen O'Beirne -- Rachel Siegel -- E. Olcay Ímamoglu and Vacit Ímamoglu -- Deborah K. van den Hoonaard -- Gail Wilson ... [et al.]. Section 3 : Beyond care-giving: identity and empowerment --
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