Publication details
Genderové nerovnosti ve stáří: marginalizace a zvýhodnění žen ve stáří.
| Title in English | Ageing as gendered experience: marginalization and agency of ageing women |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Gender - rovné příležitosti - výzkum |
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| Web | http://www.genderonline.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2009012407 |
| Keywords | aging;gender;inequalities |
| Description | Ageing is process that is always gendered. Gender shapes previous life biography, norms and expectations that are imposed on individuals as they age. On the other hand, the experience of ageing affects the mechanism of creating and negotiating gender identity. This paper critically discusses debates surrounding gender inequalities in old age. These debates often focus on older women as a group that is highly disadvantaged thanks to the combination of sexism and ageism. This paper critically discusses this “problem of old women” and shows alternative views of women’s experience of ageing. It highlights the necessity to understand age and gender as two intertwining systems. It points out that ageing can in many respect open up space to redefinition of gender roles and expectation. The intersection of age and gender can not be seen as a simple combination of two categories but as a process that creates specific social location that can create new forms of inequalities. |