Women and Aging An International, Intersectional Power Perspective
These are paradoxical times to be an older woman . As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female elders as a group are marginalized as dependent, declining, and unimportant.Women and Aging surveys t
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Varda Muhlbauer • Joan C. Chrisler Florence L. Denmark Editors
Women and Aging An International, Intersectional Power Perspective
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Editors Varda Muhlbauer Netanya Academic College Organizational Behavior and School of MBA Netanya Israel
Florence L. Denmark Department of Psychology Pace University New York New York USA
Joan C. Chrisler Department of Psychology Connecticut College New London Connecticut USA
ISBN 978-3-319-09305-5 ISBN 978-3-319-09306-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-09306-2 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014951045 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
It is a privilege to write the foreword to this volume, a volume that is at the intersection of the discourses on women’s lives, aging, and power. As a gerontologist, a feminist, and a woman who just turned 50, I, too, am located at this intersection. And what a special time it is to be at this intersection. Today, we know a great deal about women’s development over the adult life span, their health and well-being, their roles and relationships, their trials and transitions, and their challenges and triumphs (Whitbourne and Bookwala in press). We have accumulat
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