Gender and Aging

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 71-81

  Venn, Susan ^a   Davidson, Kate ^b   Arber, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Feminist Scholarship; Gender Imbalance; Gender Relation; Masculine Identity; Retirement Income

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878447937     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7374-0_5     Document Type: Chapter

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