1st Edition
Older Women in Europe A Human Rights-Based Approach
Part I: Focusing on Age and Sex Discrimination in Europe
1. Introduction: Older women in Europe and their Rights
Isabella Paoletti
2. Dismissed and Invisible: How Human Rights Law’s Treatment of Age Discrimination Reflects the Reality of Older Women’s Experiences in Europe
Elaine Dewhurst
3. Economic Security of Women in Old Age: The Practice of the Gender Equity under Conditions of Pension Gaps and Feminisation of the Households in Old Age in Europe
Ilona Kwiecień and Eva Poprawska
4. Drawing Attention to the Oldest Old Women
Isabella Paoletti
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
Ieva Stončikaitė
6. Older Women’s Portrayal in Recent TV Commercials in Romania: Old, Reversed and New Stereotypes
Andra-Dina Pană
7. Grandmothers’ Agency in Care of Grandchildren during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey
Gülçin Con Wright
8. Struggles, Social Capital and Transformation: The Experiences of Older Women in Late-Life Learning
Marvin Formosa
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
Maria Alexandra D’Araújo, Jaime Raúl Seixas Fonseca and Fernando Humberto Serra
10. Older Women and their Opportunities to Participate in Culture, Creativity and the Arts in Later Life
Elisabet Cedersund
11. Reimagining Older Women: From Followers to Active Community Leadership
Elena Bendien and Tineke Abma
12. Conclusion: Rethinking Ageing Societies
Isabella Paoletti
Biography
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).
