Posts Tagged ‘gender’

White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social li[Read More]


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Gender, Social Inequalities, and Aging (Gender Lens)

Friday, February 5th, 2010
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The experience of men and women in later life varies enormously, not only along lines of gender but also due to ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and race. In this text on gender issues among the aging, Calasanti and Slevin explore these differences, their genesis, their meaning to men and women, and their treatment in the policy arena. The aut[Read More]


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Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
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What does it mean to grow old in America? Is "successful ageing" our responsibility, and what will happen if we fail to "grow old gracefully"? This text helps put ageing in a different light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it.


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