Explore feminist ideals and advocacy for aging women in health care, home life, work, and retirement! Fundamentals of Feminist Gerontology strives to increase women’s self-esteem and their overall quality of life by encouraging education and by putting a stop to age, sex, and race discrimination. As a student or professional in psychology, social work, or gerontology, you will learn about feminist conceptions of retirement, economic issues, psychological issues, and social issues.
Key Features
- Women regaining control over their health care
- Retirement and the economic issues that older women face when they retire
- The role of children and grandchildren in the older woman’s life
- Unpaid work after retirement in the home and as a care provider
- Older women battling domestic violence
- Financial and psychological issues of widowhood
- Special concerns of minority women and lesbians as they grow older
Additional Information
This book also shows how some women are experiencing empowerment through alternative health care, such as mind-body therapies, homeopathy, aromatherapy, and herbal medicine and examines older women in the family context. Fundamentals of Feminist Gerontology will provide you with the tools to offer effective therapy to women to help them improve their own lives. Using feminist practice approaches, it gives you real-life situations and examples that will raise awareness of the issues that rob older women of the quality of life they deserve.
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