The Social Construction of Older Women’s Identities and Institutional Intervention1

Changing Worlds and the Ageing Subject: Dimensions in the Study of Ageing and Later Life

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 133-160

  Paoletti, Isabella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781351161961-8     Document Type: Chapter

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