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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... Italian , and the parents of 6 women were born in Italy . One daughter of Ital- ian parents revealed her awareness of an immigrant's marginality in relation to other native groups and the dominant culture : Well , what was wrong with ...
... Italian , and the parents of 6 women were born in Italy . One daughter of Ital- ian parents revealed her awareness of an immigrant's marginality in relation to other native groups and the dominant culture : Well , what was wrong with ...
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... Italy , for example , one woman's parents left behind their first born child : They came over and they never went back ... they were real poverty stricken .... I'm sorry I could never meet my grandparents . As Tentler ( 1979 ) found in ...
... Italy , for example , one woman's parents left behind their first born child : They came over and they never went back ... they were real poverty stricken .... I'm sorry I could never meet my grandparents . As Tentler ( 1979 ) found in ...
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... Italy , he was a mason . He and his two brothers did all that mason work up at the university on the older buildings . The three of them used to walk up there everyday . Typical of other studies of working - class life , older sons were ...
... Italy , he was a mason . He and his two brothers did all that mason work up at the university on the older buildings . The three of them used to walk up there everyday . Typical of other studies of working - class life , older sons were ...
Contents
Series Editors Foreword | 9 |
WorkingClass Single Women in Historical | 22 |
The Research Process | 38 |
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