Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500Women have always made up the majority of older people: this examination of the lives of elderly women in Britain in the period 1500 to the present reveals attitudes towards the ageing process. It sheds light on household structures as well as wider issues - including the history of the family, the process of industrialisation, the poor law, and welfare provision - and questions many common beliefs about elderly women, particularly that female old age was a time of poverty and want. An important book for students of history and sociology alike. |
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Contents
Who most needs to marry? Ageing and inequality among women and men | |
the lifecycle of single women in early modern England | |
The old womans home in eighteenthcentury England | |
The residence patterns of elderly English women in comparative perspective | |
Old and incapable? Louisa Twining and elderly women in Victorian Britain | |
older women in the twentiethcentury countryside | |
Old women in twentiethcentury Britain | |
Older women in Britain since 1500 Lynn Botelho | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500 Women And Men In History |
| Authors | Lynn Botelho, Pat Thane |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1317881141, 9781317881148 |
| Length | 260 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Europe / Great Britain / General History / General |
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