Nancy Folbre (ed.)

Warm Hands in Cold Age

Gender and Aging
Herausgeber: Folbre, Nancy; Stark, Agneta; Shaw, Lois

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is dedicated to giving gender - and a full range of social and cultural differences - their rightful place in discussions on population aging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 167mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780415415590
• ISBN-10: 0415415594
• Artikelnr.: 22591952

Autorenporträt

Nancy Folbre, Lois Shaw, Agneta Stark

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gender and Aging. Articles: Warm Hands in Cold Age - On the
Need of a New World Order of Care. Eldercare in the United States:
Inadequate, Inequitable, but Not a Lost Cause. Gender, Aging, and the
Evolving Arab Patriarchal Contract. Australia's 'Other' Gender Wage Gap:
Baby Boomers and Compulsory Superannuation Accounts. Social Assistance,
Gender, and the Aged in South Africa. Race, Ethnicity, and Social Security
Retirement Age in the US. Linking Benefits to Marital Status: Race and
Social Security in the US. Explorations: Gender and Aging: Cross-National
Contrasts. 1. Poverty and Income Maintenance in Old Age: A Cross-National
View of Low Income Older Women. 2. Growing Old in the US: Gender and Income
Adequacy. 3. Gender and Aging in South Korea