Single Women/Family Ties: Life Histories of Older WomenSAGE Publications, 1989 M07 1 - 152 pages This important qualitative study illuminates lifelong single women's contributions to family development in relation to their widowed peers. Allen examines the social and historical contexts of the women's childhoods, their experiences as young adults and the processes leading to their being single or married. Midlife variations in family caregiving experiences and the meaning of being single in old age are also discussed. |
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... Finally , women are interdependent with their families to varying degrees over the life course within this structure of cooperative and competitive individual and family needs . Their interdependence links the family of orientation and ...
... Finally , women are interdependent with their families to varying degrees over the life course within this structure of cooperative and competitive individual and family needs . Their interdependence links the family of orientation and ...
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... Finally , 2 widows did not perceive that their children or other relatives were available to them . In spite of a large number of ac- tual kin living in the area , both women felt alone , and they were much more negative about the ...
... Finally , 2 widows did not perceive that their children or other relatives were available to them . In spite of a large number of ac- tual kin living in the area , both women felt alone , and they were much more negative about the ...
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... Finally , 13 women in the sample , 9 of whom were wid- ows , stated that they had led full or exciting lives . The widowed group felt their lives were full because they had experienced the nor- mative life course involving the stages of ...
... Finally , 13 women in the sample , 9 of whom were wid- ows , stated that they had led full or exciting lives . The widowed group felt their lives were full because they had experienced the nor- mative life course involving the stages of ...
Contents
Series Editors Foreword | 9 |
WorkingClass Single Women in Historical | 22 |
The Research Process | 38 |
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