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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 24
Page 56
... high school , I wanted to be a nurse . They didn't want me to be a nurse . It wasn't the proud profession that it is today ... it wasn't a Florence Nightingale attitude . At least with my mother it wasn't ... I don't know , seeing male ...
... high school , I wanted to be a nurse . They didn't want me to be a nurse . It wasn't the proud profession that it is today ... it wasn't a Florence Nightingale attitude . At least with my mother it wasn't ... I don't know , seeing male ...
Page 72
... high school and nurse's training : When I was a nurse , I envied every maternity patient . I couldn't wait to get pregnant , and I was married 3 weeks when I got pregnant . Oh , I just couldn't wait . Being a wife and mother was her ...
... high school and nurse's training : When I was a nurse , I envied every maternity patient . I couldn't wait to get pregnant , and I was married 3 weeks when I got pregnant . Oh , I just couldn't wait . Being a wife and mother was her ...
Page 78
... school , had we been able to af- ford it .... I wanted to get to work , because I knew we needed the money . So ... high school because they were “ sickly , " and the third graduated from high school and busi- ness school , yet did not ...
... school , had we been able to af- ford it .... I wanted to get to work , because I knew we needed the money . So ... high school because they were “ sickly , " and the third graduated from high school and busi- ness school , yet did not ...
Contents
Series Editors Foreword | 9 |
WorkingClass Single Women in Historical | 22 |
The Research Process | 38 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
20th century Acker adulthood aunt birth cohort brother caregiving Chambers-Schiller child childhood cohort effects context course perspective daugh daughter dependent divorced empty nest Events Guide experiences familistic ideology family development family life course family life cycle family of orientation family of procreation father died felt feminist friends gender Gerontologist getting married girls Glick graduated from high groups Hareven high school household Hufton husband immigrants independence interdependence kids labor lifelong single women Linda Thompson marital careers marital status married women mother died never never-married women normative old age old maid older orphanage pathways patterns perceptions Rapp regrets relationship remained single responsibilities Rubin sample siblings sister social spinster stayed strategies surrogate mothers Syracuse University Tentler things tion took transition unmarried wanted Watkins widows woman women described women lived working-class families working-class women