Younger People are Preferred
The Self-Images of Elderly Women Represented in Their Letters to a Dutch Almshouse, 1885-1940
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6080136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monique Stavenuiter (Forum for Economic Research at Nijenrode University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211-220 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/036319900002500206 |
| OpenAlex | W2003067400 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Between 1885 and 1940, about 150 women of the Dutch lower middle class wrote letters to apply for rooms in the Van Brants Rushofje in Amsterdam, an institution especially meant for elderly women. This article analyses the self-images of these women, defined as an evaluation of their own situations, and asks the question whether these women related their self-images to their advanced age or to changing social circumstances, such as loss of work, decline of income, changes within the household, and the onset of illnesses. The article focuses on the period around 1900 because at that time, the almshouse was still functioning in its nineteenthcentury philanthropic tradition
Aesthetics · Art · Elderly people · Institution · Middle class · Political science · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |