This collection of readings presents a variety of perspectives on ageing from different communities across the United States: Native American, Puerto Rican, African American, the elderly homeless, white working class, gay and Mexican amongst many others. The readings cover topics such as: life course; social and psychological contexts of ageing; paid and unpaid activity; the American family; and health.

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Publisher

SAGE Publications, Inc

Year

1999

Print ISBN

9780761986645

eBook ISBN

9781452251783

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Gerontology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Different Worlds in Aging: Gender, Race, and Class
Part I - The Life Course Perspective: Aging in Individual, Sociocultural, and Historical Contexts
Advantages of Using the Life Course Framework in Studying Aging
Chapter 1 - Hard Times in Women's Lives: Historical Influences Across Forty Years
Chapter 2 - Arrival at Manzanar
Chapter 3 - Puerto Rican Paradise
Chapter 4 - In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Chapter 5 - Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions
Chapter 6 - The World of Our Grandmothers
Chapter 7 - Dear Tía
PART II - Social and Psychological Contexts of Aging
Cultural Images of Old Age
Chapter 8 - After Sixty
Chapter 9 - Listening to the Young(er)
Chapter 10 - Mother to Son
Chapter 11 - If I Had My Life to Live Over
Chapter 12 - Warning
Chapter 13 - How it Feels to be Colored Me
Chapter 14 - Father Cures a Presidential Fever
Chapter 15 - When a House is not a Home: Exploring the Meaning of Shelter among Chronically Homeless Older Men
Chapter 16 - The Big Boys
PART III - Productive Activity: Paid and Unpaid
Expanding the Definition of Productivity in Old Age
Chapter 17 - I didn't Have no Family before I was Married
Chapter 18 - I Want You Women up North to Know
Chapter 19 - Mike LeFevre
Chapter 20 - From Homemaker to Housing Advocate: An Interview with Mrs. Chang Jok Lee
Chapter 21 - Esse Quam Videri: Susie Williams Jones
Chapter 22 - Women's Work and Caregiving Roles: A Life Course Approach
Chapter 23 - The Day the Crows Stopped Talking
Chapter 24 - On the Edge of the Barrio
Chapter 25 - At the Burns-Coopers'
Chapter 26 - Like One of the Family
Chapter 27 - Race Inequities in Men's Retirement
PART IV - Family: Variations on "The American Family"
The Diversity of American Families
Chapter 28 - Survival and Resistance: Early Lessons in the Family
Chapter 29 - The Linden Tree
Chapter 30 - Between the Funerals
Chapter 31 - The Horned Toad
Chapter 32 - Elders in Southeast Asian Refugee Families
Chapter 33 - Grandparenting Styles: Native American Perspectives
Chapter 34 - Grandmother Involvement in Child Caregiving in an Urban Community
Chapter 35 - Sweet Summer: Growing up with and without My Dad
PART V - Health and Mortality: Inequalities
Inequalities in Health and Mortality: Gender, Race, and Class
Chapter 36 - On Aging
Chapter 37 - A Summer Tragedy
Chapter 38 - A Place for Mother
Chapter 39 - My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience
Chapter 40 - Public Health Then and Now: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 1932 to 1972
Chapter 41 - Doña Toña of Nineteenth Street
Chapter 42 - The Kitchen God's Wife
Chapter 43 - A Chief and Her People
Chapter 44 - The Age-by-Race Gap in Health and Mortality in the Older Population: A Social Science Research Agenda
Sources and Permissions
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

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