Women and Aging An International, Intersectional Power Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Muhlbauer, Varda (Editor), Chrisler, Joan C. (Editor), Denmark, Florence L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Gender Studies.; Cross Cultural Psychology.

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 the evolving sociopolitical landscape in an era st...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Older Women, Power and the Body
• Older women, Economic Power and Consumerism
• The Impact of Multiple Roles on the Well-being of Older Women: Strain or Enrichment?
• Older Women, Leadership and Encore Careers
• Sexuality and Older Women: Desirability and Desire
• Lesbians over 60: Newer Every Day
• Clinical Interventions to Empower Older Women.