Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing: A Critical IntroductionOpen University Press, 2003 - 191 pages Presents a critical review of key theoretical developments and issues influencing the study of adult ageing. This book explores trends in social policy, drawing on the experience of ageing in the USA, Europe and an increasingly global environment. Particular attention is given to feminist perspectives on ageing, ethics and bio-medicine. |
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... shape age identity , and biomedicine and ethics as regulators of intergenerational and professional relations . Chapter 4 addresses the development of a feminist approach to adult age- ing and some implications for social policy . Key ...
... shape age identity , and biomedicine and ethics as regulators of intergenerational and professional relations . Chapter 4 addresses the development of a feminist approach to adult age- ing and some implications for social policy . Key ...
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... shape globalization . As Jacqui True has noted , there has been little analysis of gender as a site of globalization , that shapes and is shaped by global market forces . ( Steans 2002 : 94 ; original emphasis ) Women in fact experience ...
... shape globalization . As Jacqui True has noted , there has been little analysis of gender as a site of globalization , that shapes and is shaped by global market forces . ( Steans 2002 : 94 ; original emphasis ) Women in fact experience ...
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... shape the politics of the life course in the context of a political econ- omy that is unstable and continually throwing up new challenges for older people . Social inequality and social policy A further issue concerns the extent to ...
... shape the politics of the life course in the context of a political econ- omy that is unstable and continually throwing up new challenges for older people . Social inequality and social policy A further issue concerns the extent to ...
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Desire for continuity | 31 |
Identity and the body | 37 |
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