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Older Widows and the Life Course : Multiple Narratives of Hidden Lives by Pat Chambers is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

What is Older Widows and the Life Course : Multiple Narratives of Hidden Lives about?

Later-life widowhood is the expectation of most older wives, since statistically women live longer than men and tend to marry men older than themselves. Despite this there has been little coverage of the complexities of later-life widowhood. In this book Pat Chambers redresses this balance, combining an analysis of the literature that does exist with qualitative research amongst older widows. The research reveals a multi-faceted experience of later-life widowhood. Older widows' life stories chal

Who reads Older Widows and the Life Course : Multiple Narratives of Hidden Lives?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Pat Chambers
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781351152167
Category
social science
Subjects
Sociology, Gender Studies, Science
Updated
2026-03-25

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