Older Women in Europe (eBook, PDF)

A Human Rights-Based Approach
Redaktion: Paoletti, Isabella

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about older women's strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and political involvement and, in particular, it is about re-imagining ageing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000684551
• Artikelnr.: 65153952

Autorenporträt

Isabella Paoletti, PhD is a researcher at CRIS (Social Research and Intervention Center), Perugia, Italy. Her research interests are informed by discourse analysis, ethnomethodology and ethnography. She has published extensively on gender and ageing; her publications include Being an Older Woman: A Study in the Social Production of Identity (2020, reprint).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Focusing on Age and Sex Discrimination in Europe

1. Introduction: Older women in Europe and their Rights

2. Dismissed and Invisible: How Human Rights Law's Treatment of Age Discrimination Reflects the Reality of Older Women's Experiences in Europe

3. Economic Security of Women in Old Age: The Practice of the Gender Equity under Conditions of Pension Gaps and Feminisation of Households in Old Age in Europe

4. Drawing Attention to the Oldest Old Women

Part II: Discrimination versus Inclusion and Protagonism: Some Examples from Various European Countries

5. From Invisibility to Empowerment: The Narratives of Older Women in Moggach's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

6. Older Women's Portrayal in Recent TV Commercials in Romania: Old, Reversed, and New Stereotypes

7. Grandmothers' Agency in Care of Grandchildren during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey

8. Struggles, Social Capital and Transformation: The Experiences of Older Women in Late-Life Learning

9. The Importance of Remembering that Leisure is (also) a Human Right for the Older People: Contributions From Older Portuguese Women Who Joined a Leisure Group

10. Older Women and their Opportunities to Participate in Culture, Creativity and the Arts in Later Life

11. Reimagining Older Women: From Followers to Active Community Leadership

12. Conclusion: Rethinking Ageing Societies