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Being an elderly woman: an interpretive study of the social production of the image of the elderly woman — European Action Project: "Third age: gender difference and solidarity amongst generations"
Author(s)	Isabella Paoletti
Corporate Author	Action Project Perugia - Lewisham, European Year of Elderly People
Publisher	1991
Pages	21 pp
Keywords	Older women ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social surveys ; Italy.
Annotation	The objective of this study is to explore some theoretical and methodological problems relative to the social construction of older people's image and identity, as theorised within sociolinguistics and ethnomethodology. Extracts from conversations with older women at seniors' centres in Perugia, Italy, are examined using a careful and detailed discourse analysis. The study is concerned with describing how the image of older people is produced socially, through discourse and social practices. It demonstrates that identity is connected to defining one's own field of action, that is, one's own life perspective. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000615206 B
Classmark	BD: F: TOB: 3F: 76V
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