Older Widows and the Life Course — Scriptorium Liberum

The Lives of Older Lesbians: Sexuality,

📁 The Lives of Older Lesbians: Sexuality, Identity & the Life Course

✍ Jane Traies (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan UK 🌐 English

This unique book sheds new light on the most invisible members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Hidden from view by a combination of prevailing cultural assumptions and their own unwillingness to be seen, older lesbians have been consistently under-represented in bo

Older and Bolder: Life after 60

📁 Older and Bolder: Life after 60

✍ Renata Singer 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Melbourne University Publishing 🌐 English

For the first time in history, women can expect to live well from their sixties for another three decades. A drab existence of retirement, disease and disconnection is not an option for this generation of women. In Older & Bolder, Renata Singer contrasts the stories of the pioneers of acti

Older and Bolder: Life after 60

📁 Older and Bolder: Life after 60

✍ Renata Singer 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Melbourne University Publishing 🌐 English

For the first time in history, women can expect to live well from their sixties for another three decades. A drab existence of retirement, disease and disconnection is not an option for this generation of women. In Older & Bolder, Renata Singer contrasts the stories of the pioneers of acti

Older and Bolder: Life after 60

📁 Older and Bolder: Life after 60

✍ Renata Singer 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Melbourne University Press 🌐 English

For the first time in history, women can expect to live well from their sixties for another three decades. A drab existence of retirement, disease and disconnection is not an option for this generation of women.In Older and Bolder, Renata Singer contrasts the stories of

Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusio

📁 Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes: A Life Course perspective (Life Course Research and Social Policies, 14)

✍ Nathalie Burnay (editor), Jim Ogg (editor), Clary Krekula (editor), Patricia Ven 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift

Age, Narrative and Migration: The Life C

📁 Age, Narrative and Migration: The Life Course and Life Histories of Bengali Elders in London

✍ Katy Gardner 📂 Library 📅 2002 🌐 English

Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the ‘first generation’ of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh. The book describes how many of these elders face the processes of