This volume focuses on the ways in which gender interacts with generation. Developed as the contributors and editors lived through the Covid-19 pandemic, the chapters offer a timely examination of gender-related changes that have occurred against the backdrop of changing socio-dynamics such as increasing and decreasing fertility and the aging of populations, and now, potentially, a global pandemic.
The authors demonstrate how gendered and generational interactions intersect with class, immigration status, sexualities, and race and ethnicity. They discuss the various ways generation is defined and measured and they identify areas of intergenerational conflict. Chapters explore how ageism differentially affects the retirement of women and men, the intersectional quality of care-giving, and generational differences in gender attitudes. While chapters primarily cover the US, intergenerational mobility aspirations and female exploitation in Eastern India is also covered. This edited collection offers a wide-reaching look at the dynamics between gender and generations.
Gender and Generations: An Introduction;
Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos Chapter 1. Gender and Generation in Thinking with Patriarchy; Pavla Miller
Chapter 2. Upward and Outward Mobility: Women’s Aspirations for Their Daughters in Urban India; Natascia Boeri
Chapter 3. Intergenerational Transmission of Gendered Attitudes among Second-Generation Adolescents: The Role Culture Plays in Modifying The Transmission of Gender Ideology From Immigrant Mothers to Their Children; Ismail Nooraddini
Chapter 4. Convergence or Divergence? The Generational Gap in Gender Attitudes, 1977-2018; William J. Scarborough, Deborah Fessenden and Ray Sin
Chapter 5. Gender and Generation: Focus on Women Baby Boomers’ Approaches to Retirement; Barbara Kirsh
Chapter 6. Gender, Sexual Orientation and Life Course Perspectives on LGBTQ Status; Alexis T. Franzese, Josh M. Kaufmann and Marissa M. Rurka
Chapter 7. Modeling Types of Informal Care Dyads by Gender, Primary Condition, and Relative Age; G.J. Hodson
Chapter 8. Paid Caregiving: An Extension of Women's Work; Pamela Monaghan-Geernaert
Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Morris, USA. She is co-editor of the
Advances in Gender Research series.
Marcia Texler Segal is Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita at Indiana University Southeast, USA. She is co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series.