Table of Contents

1. Integrating Age Relations into a Feminist Understanding of Gender and Families 2. Gender and Old Age: Lessons from Spousal Caregivers 3. Intimate Relationships: Learning from Later Life Experiences 4. Men at Large: Reconceptualizing Age and Gender 5. Sleep and Aging 6. On Being an Aging Woman 7. From Androgyny to Androgens: Remaking Gender 8. The Lengthening List: Age Relations in Political Economy 9. Gendered Ageism/Age Sexism 10. Aging Through the Women's Movement 11. Lesbians Inhabiting Aging Bodies 12. Multiracial Feminism, Ageism and Age Relations: Care Work and Chicana Women

About the Author

Toni M. Clasanti is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech.
Kathleen F. Slevin is Sociology Professor at College of William and Mary.
They co-authored the book: Gender Social Inequalities, and Aging (2001).