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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... mother never had to go out into the business world . Of course , at that time , ladies , or mothers , didn't go out to work the way they do today . So , we had a very happy home life and a good home . Not too much money , but plenty of ...
... mother never had to go out into the business world . Of course , at that time , ladies , or mothers , didn't go out to work the way they do today . So , we had a very happy home life and a good home . Not too much money , but plenty of ...
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... mothers , but they characterized their own hardship in more realistic terms . They held onto the ideal of a mother in the home , in spite of their personal experience with mothers needing to work to help sup- port the family . Mothers ...
... mothers , but they characterized their own hardship in more realistic terms . They held onto the ideal of a mother in the home , in spite of their personal experience with mothers needing to work to help sup- port the family . Mothers ...
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... mothers financially until their mothers died : I had to take my mother into consideration . No , I couldn't do any- thing . She had to be my prime concern . . . . I don't think I was college material . I might have gone to business ...
... mothers financially until their mothers died : I had to take my mother into consideration . No , I couldn't do any- thing . She had to be my prime concern . . . . I don't think I was college material . I might have gone to business ...
Contents
Series Editors Foreword | 9 |
WorkingClass Single Women in Historical | 22 |
The Research Process | 38 |
Copyright | |
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