Vera-Sanso, Penny (2016) Stigmatised, marginalised and overlooked: health, later life and gender in India and the United Kingdom. In: Gideon, Jasmine (ed.) Handbook on Gender and Health. International Handbooks on Gender. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781784710859.
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Abstract
Dominant discourses and conceptual frameworks tend towards stereotypical understandings of what ‘the issues’ are for older people. This forces research, policy framing and everyday discourse down predictable pathways. These stereotypical discourses on old age locate health in the body, in access to health practitioners and in being cared for. This chapter will challenge these stereotypes by demonstrating how a focus on what older people do, that is not pre-determined by ageist thinking, produces a broader understanding of what determines health in later life.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Material is copyrighted, any download is for personal use only. |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR) |
| Depositing User: | Penny Vera-Sanso |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2016 16:16 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:23 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14889 |
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