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. |
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 | |
Richard Wall | |
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 and | |
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aged women Bitteswell Botelho Britain Cambridge census cent changes child co-residence Corfe Castle Cratfield cultural daughter death decline demographic diary early modern England economic eighteenth eighteenth-century elderly widows elderly women Elizabeth English essay Europe example experience fear female gender Ghisony Growing Old guardians historians History household listings husband independence individuals inmates Jacques Dupâquier Kertzer Lady Sarah later London Louisa Twining male marriage married Mary menopause mother never-married women nurse occupation old age old women older single women older women onset of old Ottaway parents parish past paupers Pelling pension Percentage of elderly period Peter Laslett Peter Stearns physical Pontoise poor law poor relief poor women population poverty pre-industrial proportions of elderly recorded residence patterns residential retirement Richard Wall rural seventeenth century single women social Society Southampton spouse St Michael Cornhill stereotype Table Thane twentieth century urban West Flanders widowhood woman workhouse younger