Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and the ethics of aging explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life. The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that has predominated to date. Ethical studies of aging have so far failed to emphasize gender. And feminist ethics has neglected older women, even when…mehr
Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and the ethics of aging explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life. The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that has predominated to date. Ethical studies of aging have so far failed to emphasize gender. And feminist ethics has neglected older women, even when emphasizing other dimensions of 'difference.' Finally work on aging in all fields has focused on the elderly, while this volume sees aging as an extended process of negotiating personal and social change.
Margaret Urban Walker is professor of philosophy at Fordham University. She is the author of Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Routledge, 1998). She lives in New York City.
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1 Introduction Margaret Urban Walker Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Introduction Part 4 I: Looks Chapter 5 1 "There Are No Old Venuses": Older Women's Responses To Their Aging Bodies Chapter 6 2 Miroir, Memoir, Mirage: Appearance, Aging , and Women Part 7 II: Lives Chapter 8 3 Virtues and Age Chapter 9 4 Unplanned Obsolescence: Some Reflections On Aging Chapter 10 5 Stories of My Old Age Chapter 11 6 Getting Out Of Line: Alternatives To Life As A Career Chapter 12 7 Death's Gender Part 13 III: Looking At Health Care Chapter 14 8 Old Women Out Of Control: Some Thoughts On Aging, Ethics, and Psychosomatic Medicine Chapter 15 9 Menopause: Taking the Cure or Curing the Takes? Chapter 16 10 Religious Women, Medical Settings, and Moral Risk Chapter 17 11 Age, Sex, and Resource Allocation Part 18 IV: Living Arrangements Chapter 19 12 Aging Fairly: Feminist and Disability Perspectives on Intergenerational Justice Chapter 20 13 Home Care, Women, and Aging: A Case Study of Injustice Chapter 21 14 Caring for Ourselves: Peer Care in Autonomous Aging Robin Firoe Chapter 22 15 Age Segregated housing as a Moral Problem: An Exercise in Rethinking Ethics Part 23 Index Part 24 About the Contributors
Part 1 Introduction Margaret Urban Walker Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Introduction Part 4 I: Looks Chapter 5 1 "There Are No Old Venuses": Older Women's Responses To Their Aging Bodies Chapter 6 2 Miroir, Memoir, Mirage: Appearance, Aging , and Women Part 7 II: Lives Chapter 8 3 Virtues and Age Chapter 9 4 Unplanned Obsolescence: Some Reflections On Aging Chapter 10 5 Stories of My Old Age Chapter 11 6 Getting Out Of Line: Alternatives To Life As A Career Chapter 12 7 Death's Gender Part 13 III: Looking At Health Care Chapter 14 8 Old Women Out Of Control: Some Thoughts On Aging, Ethics, and Psychosomatic Medicine Chapter 15 9 Menopause: Taking the Cure or Curing the Takes? Chapter 16 10 Religious Women, Medical Settings, and Moral Risk Chapter 17 11 Age, Sex, and Resource Allocation Part 18 IV: Living Arrangements Chapter 19 12 Aging Fairly: Feminist and Disability Perspectives on Intergenerational Justice Chapter 20 13 Home Care, Women, and Aging: A Case Study of Injustice Chapter 21 14 Caring for Ourselves: Peer Care in Autonomous Aging Robin Firoe Chapter 22 15 Age Segregated housing as a Moral Problem: An Exercise in Rethinking Ethics Part 23 Index Part 24 About the Contributors
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