ISBN:
9780847692613
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (452 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Mother Time : Women, Aging, and Ethics
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Feminist ethics
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and the ethics of aging explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life. The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that has predominated to date. Ethical studies of aging have so far failed to emphasize gender. And feminist ethics has neglected older women, even when empha
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One - Looks; 1 - There Are No Old Venues: Older Women's Responses to Their Aging Bodies; Listening and Observing at Julie's International Salon; Older Women's Bodies: Discourses of Shame and Resistance; Responses to an Aging Body: Shame; Responses to an Aging Body: Resistance; Listening to Older Women Speak Out; Notes; 2 - Miroir, Mémoire, Mirage: Appearance, Aging, and Women; Miss Lonelyhearts' Guide to Identifying with the Stranger in the Mirror
Description / Table of Contents:
The Self, Representation, and Beauty-A Trio of Dubious PostulatesFacing Up to Scary Heterogeneity-The Limits of Becoming and the Need for Feminist Critique; Notes; References; Part Two - Lives; 3 - Virtues and Age; "Virtue" in the Lives of the Elderly; Virtues of "Age"; The Virtues of Age; Bitterness, Holding On, and Letting Go; Notes; 4 - Unplanned Obsolescence: Some Reflections on Aging; Polar Bears on an Ice Floe; What Is to Be Done?; Notes; 5 - Stories of My Old Age; Narrative Figurations and Counterstories; The Narrative Self-Constitution View; The Other Construction Workers
Description / Table of Contents:
Master Narratives and CounterstoriesFrom Ageism to Sexism; The Epistemic Firewall; Penetrating the Firewall; Notes; 6 - Getting Out of Line: Alternatives to Life As a Career; Problems with Autonomy; Autonomy in Broader Context: Our Lives As Careers; Ideals of Spirituality and Connection; Notes; 7 - Death's Gender; Sexing Death; Death, Age, Class; Death's Sting; How We Die: Career Selves and Seriatim Selves; Death and Women's Aging with Dignity; Notes; Part Three - Looking at Health Care; 8 - Old Women Out of Control: Some Thoughts on Aging, Ethics, and Psychosomatic Medicine
Description / Table of Contents:
Ideals of Aging and the Marketing of Fear and HopeInvestigations into Psychosomatic Diagnosis; The Ethics of Psychologizing Illness; Notes; References; 9 - Menopause: Taking the Cures or Curing the Takes?; I. Cultural Constructions; II. The Basic Endocrinology and Physiology of Menopause; III. The Hormone Replacement Therapy Debate; Conclusion; Notes; 10 - Religious Women, Medical Settings, and Moral Risk; Religious Women, Feminist Ethics, and Biomedical Ethics; Older Women and Religion; Women and the Medical Community; Religious Women in Medical Settings
Description / Table of Contents:
Creating Moral Space for Religious Women in Medical SettingsNotes; Bibliography; 11 - Age, Sex, and Resource Allocation; Considering the Options; The Health Status of Elderly Women; Prevention and Population Health; Notes; Part Four - Living Arrangements; 12 - Aging Fairly: Feminist and Disability Perspectives on Intergenerational Justice; I. Socially Constructed Weakness; II. Making People Vulnerable; III. A Disability Perspective on Decline; IV. Interconnectedness, Interdependence, Injustice; V. Refashioning Reciprocity; Notes; 13 - Home Care, Women, and Aging: A Case Study of Injustice
Description / Table of Contents:
Home As a "Site" of Care
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Permalink
