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- catalog contributor b1097828.
- catalog created "c1979.".
- catalog date "1979".
- catalog date "c1979.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1979.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- Overview -- Getting close -- The question of generalizability -- A word of caution -- 2. The societal context of old age -- The social construction of oldness -- Assessing the stereotype -- Summary -- 3. Self-identity: oldness is a stigma -- Difficulty of applying the label -- Spoiled identity -- Weak stigma -- Shared definitions -- Summary -- 4. Maintaining a precarious self-identity -- Encounters with others -- Encounters with self -- Discrepant definitions of identity -- Summary -- 5. The importance of setting in the lives of old widows -- Newcomers and residents -- Features of the setting -- Limited strategies -- Summary -- 6. Being an old mother in the unextended extended family -- Importance of offspring -- How extended is the family? -- Distribution of power -- Balancing power -- When balancing fails -- The meaning of family membership -- Lack of power in the sacred institution -- 7. Confronting the grim reaper -- Death and uncertainty -- Strategies for controlling dying -- Taking the unknowable into account -- 8. Negotiating identity in a setting -- The institutionalization of postadulthood -- The senior citizens' center: the staff's view -- The senior citizens' center: the participants' view -- The power of professionals -- Summary and forecast=t.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 181-189.".
- catalog extent "192 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Social world of old women.".
- catalog identifier "0803912250".
- catalog identifier "0803912269 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Social world of old women.".
- catalog isPartOf "Sage library of social research ; v. 78".
- catalog issued "1979".
- catalog issued "c1979.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications,".
- catalog relation "Social world of old women.".
- catalog subject "301.43/5".
- catalog subject "HQ1061 .M356".
- catalog subject "Identity (Psychology)".
- catalog subject "Older women Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Self-perception in women.".
- catalog subject "Self-perception.".
- catalog subject "Women Identity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- Overview -- Getting close -- The question of generalizability -- A word of caution -- 2. The societal context of old age -- The social construction of oldness -- Assessing the stereotype -- Summary -- 3. Self-identity: oldness is a stigma -- Difficulty of applying the label -- Spoiled identity -- Weak stigma -- Shared definitions -- Summary -- 4. Maintaining a precarious self-identity -- Encounters with others -- Encounters with self -- Discrepant definitions of identity -- Summary -- 5. The importance of setting in the lives of old widows -- Newcomers and residents -- Features of the setting -- Limited strategies -- Summary -- 6. Being an old mother in the unextended extended family -- Importance of offspring -- How extended is the family? -- Distribution of power -- Balancing power -- When balancing fails -- The meaning of family membership -- Lack of power in the sacred institution -- 7. Confronting the grim reaper -- Death and uncertainty -- Strategies for controlling dying -- Taking the unknowable into account -- 8. Negotiating identity in a setting -- The institutionalization of postadulthood -- The senior citizens' center: the staff's view -- The senior citizens' center: the participants' view -- The power of professionals -- Summary and forecast=t.".
- catalog title "The social world of old women : management of self-identity / Sarah H. Matthews ; pref. by John Lofland.".
- catalog type "text".