Connection, Compromise, and Control: Canadian Women Discuss Midlife - Softcover

Mandell, Nancy; Wilson, Susannah; Duffy, Ann

9780195417937: Connection, Compromise, and Control: Canadian Women Discuss Midlife

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195417933 ISBN 13: 9780195417937

Publisher: OUP Canada, 2008

This text provides discussion of the female life cycle based on in-depth interviews with 150 diverse women at various stages in their lives, including women from visible minorities, lesbians, women with disabilities, and women living in poverty. In this text, particular attention will be paid to issues of: baby boomers; the women's movement; work and economic security; caregiving; health and well-being; family and intimacy; and structure, culture, and agency. All the chapters underline the need for a new perspective that incorporates the historical and generational shifts in women's lives and their experience of aging.

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About the Author:

Nancy Mandell is Associate Professor in Sociology and Women's Studies at York University. Mary Rubio is a Humanities Ph. D graduate from McMaster University. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph. Mary is a leading Montgomery scholar and has collaborated on writing and editing projects since 1975 at the University of Guelph with fellow professor, Elizabeth Waterston. Ann Duffy is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Sociology at Brock University.

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