%0 Journal Article
%T Envejecimiento y g¨¦nero: perspectivas te¨®ricas y aproximaciones al envejecimiento femenino
%A Yuni
%A Jos¨¦ Alberto
%A Urbano
%A Claudio Ariel
%J Revista argentina de sociolog£¿-a
%D 2008
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X based on the notion of maturescence, this paper advances a characterization of women£¿s aging process from the critical perspective of differential aging, critical gerontology, and feminist gerontology. first, it synthesizes the meta-theoretical debate in social gerontology, highlighting the critical contributions of feminist gerontology. in the second section, the article discusses from a gender perspective the process of maturescence as both a personal and sociocultural time of identity rebuilding. female maturescence, defined as a phenomenon of the last decades, results from a combination of factors: advances in gender equality, increased life expectancy, and the feminization of longevity. these changes created a new identity field for women£¿s early old age. several studies have shown that the dominant features of maturescence are crisis and the recreation of personal identity. from a theoretical perspective, the article describes different psychological dimensions of female maturescence from a sociocultural approach.
%K differential aging
%K female aging
%K maturescence
%K critical gerontology
%K feminist gerontology.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1669-32482008000100011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en