Age Matters Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking [Paperback]

This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power relations interface with race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation. Serious theorizing of old age and age relations to gender represents the next frontier of feminist scholarship. In this volume, leading national and international feminist scholars of aging take first steps in this direction, illuminating how age relations interact with other social inequalities, particularly gender. In doing so, the authors challenge and transform feminist scholarship and many taken for granted concepts in gender studies.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction: Age Matters, by Toni M. Calasanti and Kathleen F. Slevin

Part 1: Challenges to Feminisms

Chapter 2 The Personal as Political: Lessons from the Life and Works of Betty Friedan,

by Ruth E. Ray

Chapter 3 The Lengthening List of Oppressions: Age relations and the feminist study of inequality, by Neal King

Chapter 4 From Androgyny to Androgens: Re-Sexing the Aging Body, by Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz

Chapter 5 Graying the Cyborg: New Directions in Feminist Analyses of Aging, Science, and Technology, by Kelly Joyce and Laura Mamo

Chapter 6 Intimate Relationships: Learning From Later Life Experience, by Ingrid Arnet Connidis

Chapter 7 Aging and Gender in Families: A Very Grand Opening, by Katherine R. Allen and Alexis J. Walker

Chapter 8 Intersectionality and Age Relations: Unpaid Care Work and Chicanas, by

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