Gender And Ageing: Changing Roles And Relationships
- ISBN-10
- 0335213197
- ISBN-13
- 9780335213191
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 213
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-11-01
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
- Authors
- Kate, Davidson, JAY
Description
This text emphasizes changing gender roles and relationships, gender identity and an examination of masculinities in midlife and later life. It covers the need to reconceptualize partnership status, in order to understand the implications of both widowhood and divorce for older women and men.
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- 2003-11-16
- 232 pages
- Paperback
- McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
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