Faces of Women and Aging

by Ellen Cole, Esther D. Rothblum, Nancy C Davis, et al.

Book Overview

Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old women in a society that values women mainly as sexual partners or producers of children. Old women are often seen as poor, powerless, and pitiful in our sexist and youth-oriented society. The truth is that women age much more successfully than do men and they are increasingly in the majority as our population...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560230428
• ISBN13: 9781560230427
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.4"