Mother Time Women, Aging and Ethics |
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Author:
| Walker, Margaret Urban |
Contribution by:
| Walker, Margaret Urban Bartky, Sandra Lee Callahan, Daniel Callahan, Joan C. DesAutels, Peggy Fiore, Robin N. Furman, Frida Kerner Holstein, Martha Meyers, Diana Tietjens Nelson, Hilde Lindemann Nelson, James Lindemann Ruddick, Sara Silvers, Anita Tronto, Joan Wendell, Susan |
ISBN: | 978-0-8476-9260-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $46.95 |
Book Description:
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Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and the ethics of aging explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life. The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that has predominated to date. Ethical studies...
More DescriptionFifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and the ethics of aging explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life. The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that has predominated to date. Ethical studies of aging have so far failed to emphasize gender. And feminist ethics has neglected older women, even when emphasizing other dimensions of "difference." Finally work on aging in all fields has focused on the elderly, while this volume sees aging as an extended process of negotiating personal and social change.