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Ageing without children : European and Asian perspectives / edited by Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill.

Title
Ageing without children : European and Asian perspectives / edited by Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill.
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Kreager, Philip.
  • Schroeder-Butterfill, E.
  • University of Oxford
Description
xii, 276 p. : ill., 1 map; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 5 [i.e. 6]
Uniform Title
Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 6.
Alternative Title
Aging without children
Subject
  • Older people > Services for > Europe > Case studies > Congresses
  • Older people > Services for > Asia > Case studies > Congresses
  • Childlessness > Europe > Congresses
  • Childlessness > Asia > Congresses
Note
  • Based on a seminar held in 2001 under the auspices of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group (FRSG) of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Institute of Ageing, Department of Sociology, at Oxford University.
  • Series number appears as v. 5 on ser. t.p. and v. 6 on cover. Publisher Web page indicates v. 6 is correct.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Where are the children? / Philip Kreager -- Problems of elderly without children: a case-study of the matrilineal Minangkabau, West Sumatra / Edi Indrizal -- "They don't need it, and I can't give it": filial support in South India / Penny Vera-Sanso -- Adoption, patronage and charity: arrangements for the elderly wihout children in East Java / Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill -- In the absence of family support: cases of childless widows in urban neighbourhoods of East Java / Ruly Marianti -- Demographic change in Europe: implications for future family support for older people / Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham -- British Pakistani elderly without children: an invisible minority / Alison Shaw --
  • Home-place, movement and autonomy: rural aged in East Anglia and Normandy / Judith Okely -- The position of the elderly in Greece prior to the Second World War: evidence from three island populations / Violetta Hionidou.
ISBN
1571816143 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2004053835
OCLC
  • 55729873
  • SCSB-10466270
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library