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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... traditional and never - married women exist , but not necessarily in stereotypic ways . This holistic framework of mutuality is consistent with women's historic connec- tion to caring activities and institutions ( Finch & Groves , 1983 ...
... traditional and never - married women exist , but not necessarily in stereotypic ways . This holistic framework of mutuality is consistent with women's historic connec- tion to caring activities and institutions ( Finch & Groves , 1983 ...
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... traditional female life course was represented among the wid- owed group , parental status was restricted to women who had at least one child survive through the childrearing process to age 18 , which is the census designation for ...
... traditional female life course was represented among the wid- owed group , parental status was restricted to women who had at least one child survive through the childrearing process to age 18 , which is the census designation for ...
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... traditional values required that women remain in the home to manage domestic and childrearing responsibilities . Con- sistent with the Western European marriage pattern ( Dixon , 1978 ) and descriptions of married mothers in the working ...
... traditional values required that women remain in the home to manage domestic and childrearing responsibilities . Con- sistent with the Western European marriage pattern ( Dixon , 1978 ) and descriptions of married mothers in the working ...
Contents
Series Editors Foreword | 9 |
WorkingClass Single Women in Historical | 22 |
The Research Process | 38 |
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