1st Edition
When Older Women Speak Aging, Emotional Distress, and the Self
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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Studying the interaction of gender, class, race/ethnicity, and aging in the depression experience of older women provides a unique opportunity to understand how aging plays a significant role in shaping conceptions of self and emotional health trajectories for women. Based on author interviews with mostly working-class, depressed, elderly women, this book contributes to the theoretical... Read more
Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Way It Was
- Marriage, Motherhood and Work
- Doctors and Families in Health Care
- Depression and Its Treatment
- The Aging Feminine Self: Redemption and Transcendence
- Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Biography
Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano is an associate professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California-Davis.
Charles S. Varano is a professor at the Department of Sociology at California State University-Sacramento.
