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Women and aging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Sara Arber  and
Jay Ginn
Sara Arber*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Jay Ginn
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
*
Sara Arber, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, UK.
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Social and psychological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , November 1994 , pp. 349 - 358
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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