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By Himself

Name: By Himself
Brand: University Of Toronto Press
SKU: 9781442641099
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The Older Man's Experience of Widowhood

Szerző: Deborah K. van den Hoonaard

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University Of Toronto Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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What happens when older men become widowers? Popular books, movies, and television present widowers...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Deborah K. van den Hoonaard

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2010

oldal

176

EAN

9781442641099

ISBN

1442641096

Enbook ID

04797474

Kiadó

University Of Toronto Press

Súly

480

Méretek

159 x 236 x 22

Teljes leírás

What happens when older men become widowers? Popular books, movies, and television present widowers as lost and unable to cope or care for themselves. These stereotypes do not encapsulate the experiences of real widowers, how their daily lives change, and what being a widower means to individuals in both sociological and practical ways. By Himself is based on in-depth interviews with twenty-six widowers over the age of sixty living in the United States and Canada. Using these interviews, Deborah K. van den Hoonaard explores masculine identity and traces the stories that widowers tell about their wives' illnesses and deaths. She also focuses on the widowers' changed relationships with their children and friends, as well as with women, and details the men's encounters with tasks such as housework and cooking. An eminently readable and accessible book, By Himself sheds new light on the social meaning of being a widower.