Reconstruction of the Meaning of Residential Space for Elderly Women with Spousal Bereavement in Old Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-121
Author(s):  
Jeeyeon Song ◽  
Hyesuk Chong
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Spousal Bereavement ◽  
Residential Space

Rachmiel Peltz, From immigrant to ethnic culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 263. Hb $49.50, pb $18.95.

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Miriam Isaacs
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Real Estate Investments

South Philadelphia can be added to the littered landscape of Jewish geography, in which Chelm, Belz, Odessa, Boiberik, and Brownsville are terrain abandoned by Jews. They are romanticized in folk songs, but they make poor real estate investments. Similarly, Yiddish cultural life may be seen as a landscape of outmoded lifeways. The Yiddish language and its dialects have been cast off, but at the same time they remain cherished in memory. Peltz's ethnography explores Yiddish as it survives among what is left of a Yiddish-speaking community in Philadelphia. The story of Yiddish is one of powerlessness; Peltz takes us to the seemingly marginal Jews, the yidelekh – working-class, elderly women and men who are marginalized as a function of their old age, their accents, and their lack of higher education.

Thinking about the Production and Consumption of Long-term Care in Britain: Does Gender Still Matter?

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLARE UNGERSON
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Mixed Economy ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Impact

This article suggests that the literature on care, which originally was heavily influenced by a gendered perspective, has now taken on other important variables. However, it is argued that if we look at the particular impact of the marketisation and privatisation of long-term care, we can see that gender is still a useful perspective on the production of care, especially paid care. The reordering of the delivery of domiciliary care within the ‘mixed economy of welfare’ is having important effects on the labour market for care and is likely to lead to further inequalities between women, both now and in old age. The article proceeds to look at the impact of these inequalities on the consumption of care in old age, particularly by elderly women and considers factors that may provide women with the resources to purchase care and/or pay charges for care. The article argues that gender does still matter, but that its impact has to be understood within a context of growing inequalities between women, and an analysis that takes account of wider social and economic relations within kin networks and between generations.

Gendered Perceptions of Aging: An Examination of College Students

2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne E. Barrett ◽  
Carmen Von Rohr
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Attitudes Toward Elderly ◽  
Life Attitudes ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Aging Anxiety

Few studies examine how the gendered nature of aging impacts young adults—shaping their images of later life, attitudes toward elderly persons, aging anxieties, and conceptions of the start of “old age.” We examine gender differences in young adults' views of elders and the aging process using a survey of college students and content analysis of student-drawn sketches of elders ( N = 391). Results indicate that both genders hold more positive images of elderly women than men; however, they view “old age” as beginning at a younger age for women. In addition, we find that, compared with men, women report later starts of “old age” for both genders and more favorable attitudes toward elders, but also greater aging anxiety.

scholarly journals Starość w starożytnej literaturze ormiańskiej

Vox Patrum ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 411-416
Author(s):  
Jan W. Żelazny
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Grey Hair ◽  
Armenian Literature

In Armenian tradition, old age, with its grey hair, symbolizes wisdom and respon­sibility. The country’s tradition depends on elderly people. Opinions expressed in the Armenian literature of that time are similar to the ones regarding the same issue occurring in the entire Middle East. Only two issues arising interest and cause surprise. The first thought concerns the gossiping of elderly women, which does not mean anything wrong, but may rather be related to method of transferring tradition that creates collective mem­ory of a nation. The second question is close relation between old age and adolescence. Both children and elderly people are the basic groups in the community on whose survival the nation’s future depends.

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