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Feminism and critical educational gerontology
— an agenda for good practice | | Author(s) | Marvin Formosa |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 30, no 4, Fall 2005 |
| Pages | pp 396-411 |
| Source | http://www.transactionpub.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Women's movement ; Adult Education ; U3A ; Malta. |
| Annotation | The 'empowering' potential inherent in the interface between feminist gerontology and critical educational gerontology is this article's focus. Following a feminist criticism of critical educational gerontology as yet another parochial discourse where women are silenced and made passive through their invisibility, the author attempts to construct a critical agenda for feminist educational gerontology. Field research was carried out at the University of the Third Age (U3A) in Valletta, Malta, due to the fact that the U3As represent one of the most successful and important educational programmes specifically developed for older people. Data analyses reveal the necessity of introducing five principles for founding a truly feminist educational experience in later life, namely: acknowledging older women as an oppressed population due to the 'double standard of ageing'; a focus on women's lifelong cumulative disadvantages; emphasising a 'politics of difference'; embracing a feminist praxis in both older adult education and research activities; and embodying a drive towards the empowerment of older women in a distinct but collective effort. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070503244 A |
| Classmark | BD: SH:TM8: GP: V5A: 76W |
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