Women and Ageing in British Society Since 1500Lynn A. Botelho, Pat Thane These essays examine the lives of elderly women and attitudes towards them from 1500 to the present. They shed light on the process of industrialisation and welfare provision and question many common assumptions about elderly women. |
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Who most needs to marry? Ageing and inequality | 31 |
the lifecycle of single women | 89 |
The old womans home in eighteenthcentury England | 111 |
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