Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing draws on the findings of a unique study that has focused on the health of more than four hundred women in their mid-to-late li

This timely collection engages with representations of women and ageing in literature and visual culture. Acknowledging that cultural conceptions of ageing are

Women have always made up the majority of older people: this examination of the lives of elderly women in Britain in the period 1500 to the present reveals atti

This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by women to

The story of how and why some women choose to use, while others refuse, cosmetic intervention. What is it like to be a woman growing older in a culture where yo