Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in o

This volume is based on feminist qualitative research with older women, contextualised within current literature & debates in the field of social gerontology. T

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Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during th

Although there are many books on women in the ancient world, this is the first to explore in depth what life was like for women in the period of late antiquity