Connecting Gender and Ageing: A Sociological Approach

Abstract

Only connect - gender relations and ageing ageing, gender and sociological theory theorizing age and gender relations conformity and resistance as women age gendered work, gendered retirement choice and constraint in the retirement of older married women the married lives of older people I'm the eyes and she's the arms - changes in gender roles in advanced old age mutual care but differential esteem - caring between older couples gender roles, employment and informal care gender and elder abuse gender and social support networks in later life connecting gender and ageing - a new beginning?