This book argues for the importance of age as a source of diversity
and difference amongst women. It compares three generations of
women's accounts of a range of gender issues, including the
domestic division of labour, equality, abortion and sexuality. It
also compares their understandings of and orientations toward the
feminist movement. Drawing on Karl Mannheim's argument that an
individual's location in historical time shapes their social
outlooks or world views, it is shown that women of different ages
do not share the same gendered life courses due to differing cohort
memberships. Consequently, women of different ages interpret,
define and give meaning to gender issues and to feminism in varied
and contrasting ways. A key concern of the book is to show that
findings from qualitative studies are an important supplement to
surveys of cohort differences in women's gender attitudes, in that
they are more revealing of the complex ways cohort influences the
construction of gender issues, including the very language used to
do so.
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