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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Page 106
... position as head of the family , lifelong single women expressed that they had most of the rewards and few of the ... positions of wife , mother , grandmother , and great - grandmother . Never - married women occupied the important ...
... position as head of the family , lifelong single women expressed that they had most of the rewards and few of the ... positions of wife , mother , grandmother , and great - grandmother . Never - married women occupied the important ...
Page 112
... position as an outsider in their home : I wouldn't interfere with what they are doing . I don't know if I want to live with somebody all the time . I have been alone for a long time , and of course , I never had any sisters , so I was ...
... position as an outsider in their home : I wouldn't interfere with what they are doing . I don't know if I want to live with somebody all the time . I have been alone for a long time , and of course , I never had any sisters , so I was ...
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... position all my life , had the same friends all my life .... Maybe I've led an uneventful life , but I've been happy in the life I've led . The 2 widows described their lives in similar terms : I don't have too much of a life . I think ...
... position all my life , had the same friends all my life .... Maybe I've led an uneventful life , but I've been happy in the life I've led . The 2 widows described their lives in similar terms : I don't have too much of a life . I think ...
Contents
Series Editors Foreword | 9 |
WorkingClass Single Women in Historical | 22 |
The Research Process | 38 |
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