Main description:

Diversity of authorship - with chapters from authors throughout the world.

Wide range of case studies which back up the volume's argument and support its conclusions.

Contents:

1. Introduction Part I. Women, Households, and Aging 2. French Immigrant Women and their Aging Experiences in California, 1880-1940 3. Aging French-Canadian Immigrant Women in the U.S. in 1910: North American Comparative Perspectives 4. The Grandmother Exception: The Role of Family Relationships in the History of U.S. Immigration Policy and Practice Part II. Isolated Women and Aging 5. Open or Closed Horizons? Personal Accounts on the Emigration/Transfer of Basque Nuns to the Americas 6. Women and War: Aging, Migration, and Violence in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands Part III. Women and Aging as Transnational Experiences 7. From Providing Care to Requiring Care: The Impact of Migration on the Elderly in Paraguay 8. The Importance of Integration in the Life Stories of Immigrant Women from Piaxtla, Mexico, Who Live in the United States 9. Peule Female Migration to the Americas and their Return to Guinea in Old Age: Evolution of Gender Relations in the Mamou Region