Chimes of Change and Hours: Views of Older Women in Twentieth-century AmericaEncompassing a variety of perspectives on the lives of older women in modern America, this book is a rich mosaic, drawing on demographic, social-psychological, social-historical, economic, and gerontological data, and incorporating transcripts of oral histories, interviews with women artists, fiction and essays by and about women in the second half of their lives, autobiographies, diaries, journals, letters, and other sources. |
Contents
Introduction | 13 |
13 | 39 |
Older Women in a Changing Society | 63 |
Copyright | |
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