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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... effects , age effects , social desirability response sets , and cognitive consistency theory . Other critics of the developmental approach claim that the stages merely reflect changes in marital and parental status ( Elder , 1977 ) ...
... effects , age effects , social desirability response sets , and cognitive consistency theory . Other critics of the developmental approach claim that the stages merely reflect changes in marital and parental status ( Elder , 1977 ) ...
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... effects by structuring their expectations that life was hard . Chapter Five focuses on the experiences of the never- married women and widows as young adults and the processes lead- ing to singlehood , delayed marriage , and early ...
... effects by structuring their expectations that life was hard . Chapter Five focuses on the experiences of the never- married women and widows as young adults and the processes lead- ing to singlehood , delayed marriage , and early ...
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... effect of a mother's death was evident in the above cases . Although the familistic ideology was clearly operating during these periods of parental loss , family solutions were not al- ways made with the interests of the particular ...
... effect of a mother's death was evident in the above cases . Although the familistic ideology was clearly operating during these periods of parental loss , family solutions were not al- ways made with the interests of the particular ...
Contents
Series Editors Foreword | 9 |
WorkingClass Single Women in Historical | 22 |
The Research Process | 38 |
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