Stoic Heroines or Collaborators: Ageism, Feminism and the Provision of Assistance to Abused Old Women (original) (raw)

Journal of Social Work Practice, 2008

Abstract

This paper uses findings of a study in rural Canada to discuss issues surrounding the assistance offered to old women living with abuse. Assistance providers, some of whom were women in their mid‐seventies and beyond, suggested that most women in these age groups are of the opinion that ‘having made their [marriage] bed they should lie in it’. Said to

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