| Challenging Invisibility: Practices of Care with Older Women Contributor(s): Scheib, Karen D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0827204949 ISBN-13: 9780827204942 Publisher: Chalice Press OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2004 Annotation: Karen Scheib, trained both in gerontology and in pastoral care, has done extensive research in the care of women over the age of sixty. Through her research she reveals that women of this age often feel invisible, ignored by a society that constructs myths and stereotypes about old age and hides women. Yet these senior women experience a strong faith and a strong desire to express that faith in active ways. Working from a deeply theological framework and a strong reverence for older women, Scheib models ways that pastors and other care providers can recognize women's accomplishments and intentionality, and find ways to care for them as faithful people. She shows the relationship between individual women's lives and the wider social situation, and shows older women as they really are--full of life and faith. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - Counseling & Recovery |
| Dewey: 259.308 |
| LCCN: 2004002459 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.54" W x 8.5" (0.56 lbs) 166 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Mainline - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Women older than 65 are a large subgroup of the average congregation, yet women are noticeably absent in the literature and training in pastoral care and counseling. They outnumber same-aged men in the general United States population by more than 40 percent but are underrepresented in genealogical studies and disappear from the media, which depicts few positive images of older women in television, movies, and advertisements. In an in-depth study of women over the age of 65, Karen Scheib asked women how they feel they are perceived in their churches. Their answer: "invisible." Karen Scheib believes that invisibility results from social, political, and economic factors that provide the context in which women age. This social context is not neutral toward aging, but defines or constructs what it means to grow old and to be old. Understanding the construction of older women's invisibility in both church and society requires a perspective that moves beyond the individual experiences of aging to an analysis of the social forces that shape the experience of aging in America. |
Contributor Bio(s): Scheib, Karen: - Karen D. Scheib is assistant professor of pastoral care and counseling at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. |