Older Women in Europe

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.

Isabella Paoletti, PhD is a researcher at CRIS (Social Research and Intervention Center), Perugia, Italy. Her research interests are informed by discourse analysis, ethnomethodology and ethnography. She has published extensively on gender and ageing; her publications include Being an Older Woman: A Study in the Social Production of Identity (2020, reprint).

Part I: Focusing on Age and Sex Discrimination in Europe 1. Introduction: Older women in Europe and their Rights 2. Dismissed and Invisible: How Human Rights Law's Treatment of Age Discrimination Reflects the Reality of Older Women's Experiences in Europe 3. Economic Security of Women in Old Age: The Practice of the Gender Equity under Conditions of Pension Gaps and Feminisation of Households in Old Age in Europe 4. Drawing Attention to the Oldest Old Women 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 6. Older Women's Portrayal in Recent TV Commercials in Romania: Old, Reversed, and New Stereotypes 7. Grandmothers' Agency in Care of Grandchildren during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey 8. Struggles, Social Capital and Transformation: The Experiences of Older Women in Late-Life Learning 9. The Importance of Remembering that Leisure is (also) a Human Right for the Older People: Contributions From Older Portuguese Women Who Joined a Leisure Group 10. Older Women and their Opportunities to Participate in Culture, Creativity and the Arts in Later Life 11. Reimagining Older Women: From Followers to Active Community Leadership 12. Conclusion: Rethinking Ageing Societies