Featured Items
Explore some aspects of aging.
![book cover](/cover_images/older-women-well-being-shankardass-2021-cover.jpg)
- Editor
- Mala Kapur Shankardass
- Description
- Includes case studies and topics including abuse and mistreatment, agism, caregiving, disability, gender-based violence, grief, living arrangements, mental health, and work.
- Year
- 2021
![book cover](/cover_images/incarceration-older-women-benedict-2023-cover.jpg)
- Author
- Regina White Benedict
- Description
- Based on interviews conducted between 2007 and 2009 with 29 people incarcerated at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women.
- Year
- 2023
![book cover](/cover_images/golden-girls-giacomazzo-2023-cover.jpg)
- Author
- Bernadette Giacomazzo
- Description
- Features chapters on each main character and examines the ways the series covered topics including agism, AIDS, misogyny, poverty, race, sexuality, and of course friendship.
- Year
- 2023
![book cover](/cover_images/women-aging-art-hofrichter-yoshimoto-2021-cover.jpg)
- Editor
- Frima Fox Hofrichter and Midori Yoshimoto
- Description
- Includes 72 illustrations.
- Year
- 2021
![book cover](/cover_images/soccer-grannies-duffy-2023-cover.jpg)
- Author
- Jean Duffy
- Description
- Includes backgrounds on the athletes and an overview of living conditions in South Africa plus accounts of the team's interactions with American soccer players.
- Year
- 2023
![book cover](/cover_images/spinsters-widows-chars-mortimer-2021-cover.jpg)
- Author
- Claire Mortimer
- Description
- Covers the 1930s to the present.
- Year
- 2021
![book cover](/cover_images/ageing-identities-womens-everyday-talk-hair-salon-heinrichsmeier-2020-cover.jpg)
- Author
- Rachel Heinrichsmeier
- Description
- Based on two years of fieldwork in a small hair salon in a village in southern England.
- Year
- 2020
![book cover](/cover_images/sexuality-disability-aging-gallop-2018-cover.jpg)
- Author
- Jane Gallop
- Description
- Combines personal observations on aging, disability, and sexuality with disability studies, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory.
- Year
- 2019
![book cover](/cover_images/ageing-women-literature-visual-culture-mcglynn-oneill-schrage-fruh-2017-cover.jpg)
- Editor
- Cathy McGlynn, Margaret O'Neill, and Michaela Schrage-Früh
- Description
- Covers works by authors including Jane Austen, Clare Boylan, J. M. Coetzee, Suzanne Lacey, Clarence Major, Joseph O'Connor, and Sylvia Townsend Warner and films and television series including Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, Girls, and Once upon a Time.
- Year
- 2017
![book cover](/cover_images/punk-gender-ageing-way-2020-cover.jpg)
- Author
- Laura Way
- Description
- Based on interviews with 22 women aged 27–52 based primarily in the United Kingdom.
- Year
- 2020