title: Critical feminist gerontology: in the back room of research.
abstract: The article takes a feminist approach to gerontology. It examines the stereotypes of ageism that derive from the relationship between culture and old age. It establishes the requirements for a type of research that reflects women's own experience of growing older, as well as the social construction of values related to women's old age. It focuses on the sociocultural features of this population, which faces old age with certain limitations, but also with unparalleled assets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain. afreixas@uco.es
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Freixas
authors.forename: Bárbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Luque
authors.forename: Amalia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reina
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D012107:Research Design; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013240:Stereotyping; D016387:Women's Health