Front cover image for Women and ageing in British society since 1500

Women and ageing in British society since 1500

Gender issues are now an integral part of all history courses, and this series will tackle themes in gender history from the early medieval period through to the present day
Print Book, English, 2001
Longman, Harlow, England, 2001
History
xi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780582329010, 9780582329027, 9781317881155, 0582329019, 0582329027, 131788115X
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Strategies of poor aged women and widows in sixteenth-century London / Claire S. Schen
Who most needs to marry? Ageing and inequality among women and men in early modern Norwich / Margaret Pelling
Old age and menopause in rural women of early modern Suffolk / Lynn Botelho
'I feel myself decay apace' : old age in the diary of Lady Sarah Cowper (1644-1720) / Anne Kugler
Old maids : the lifecycle of single women in early modern England / Amy M. Froide
The old woman's home in eighteenth-century England / Susannah Ottaway
The residence patterns of elderly English women in comparative perspective / Richard Wall
Old and incapable? Louisa Twining and elderly women in Victorian Britain / Theresa Deane
'An inheritance of fear' : older women in the twentieth-century countryside / Stephen Hussey
Old women in twentieth-century Britain / Pat Thane