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Older Women in Europe: A Human Rights-Based Approach

Older Women in Europe: A Human Rights-Based Approach

Author: Isabella Paoletti
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032261157
Published In: September 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book is about older women’s strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and political involvement and, in particular, it is about re-imagining ageing.

Older women represent the great majority of older people. The book describes instances of age and gender discrimination and examples of social inclusion and protagonism of older women in Europe. It solicits a change in perspective, focussing on the necessary societal changes to make space to older people and older women in particular. How is society going to address age and gender discrimination in social and institutional settings? How the work settings should change to effectively make space to older workers and in particular older women? How the pension system should change? How the public health systems could provide effective care to older people and be sustainable?

This edited collection focuses on older women’s rights rather than their needs adopting a Human Rights Based Approach. The preservation of older women’s dignity, autonomy and security is its central topic, that is, ensuring that their rights are recognized. This collection offers insights valuable to a wide array of Human Rights activists, professionals, policy makers and social scientists and older women themselves.

Part I: Focussing on Age and Sex Discrimination in Europe

1. Introduction: Older women in Europe and their Rights

Isabella Paoletti

2. Dismissed and Invisible: How Human Rights Law’s Treatment of Age Discrimination Reflects the Reality of Older Women’s Experiences in Europe

Elaine Dewhurst

3. Economic Security of Women in Old Age: The Practice of the Gender Equity under Conditions of Pension Gaps and Feminization of the Households in Old Age in Europe

Ilona Kwiecień and Eva Poprawska

4. Drawing Attention to the Oldest Old Women

Isabella Paoletti

Part II: Discrimination versus Inclusion and Protagonism: Some Examples from Various European Countries

5. From Invisibility to Empowerment: The Narratives of Older Women in Moggach’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Ieva Stončikaitė

6. Older Women’s Portrayal in Recent TV Commercials in Romania: Old, Reversed and New Stereotypes

Andra-Dina Pană

7. Grandmothers’ Agency in Care of Grandchildren during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey

Gülçin Con Wright

8. Struggles, Social Capital and Transformations: The Experiences of Older Women in Late-Life Learning

Marvin Formosa