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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... strategy to marrying and producing her own family . The unmarried daughter's family - keeping role was promoted by the fam- ily under certain circumstances , such as when a parent was widowed and other siblings had left home . The role ...
... strategy to marrying and producing her own family . The unmarried daughter's family - keeping role was promoted by the fam- ily under certain circumstances , such as when a parent was widowed and other siblings had left home . The role ...
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... strategies . In the first strategy , families struggled to keep the family of orientation together in the same household , even though such family autonomy was often impossible given the structural ine- qualities faced by these working ...
... strategies . In the first strategy , families struggled to keep the family of orientation together in the same household , even though such family autonomy was often impossible given the structural ine- qualities faced by these working ...
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... strategies of never - married women are explored in rela- tion to the family extensions of ever - married mothers ... strategy ( Dixon , 1978 ; Watkins , 1984 ) of 19th and early 20th century working - class women and the role of ...
... strategies of never - married women are explored in rela- tion to the family extensions of ever - married mothers ... strategy ( Dixon , 1978 ; Watkins , 1984 ) of 19th and early 20th century working - class women and the role of ...
Contents
Series Editors Foreword | 9 |
WorkingClass Single Women in Historical | 22 |
The Research Process | 38 |
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