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Back to my old self and life restarting: Biographies of ageing in beck's risk society

Back to my old self and life restarting: Biographies of ageing in beck's risk society

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_sage_journals_10_1177_1440783318766150

Back to my old self and life restarting: Biographies of ageing in beck's risk society

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Back to my old self and life restarting: Biographies of ageing in beck's risk society

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South Melbourne, VIC: SAGE Publications

Journal title

Journal of sociology (Melbourne, Vic.), 2018-06, Vol.54 (2), p.249-263

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English

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South Melbourne, VIC: SAGE Publications

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Contents

Drawing on free-text survey comments from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health (ALSWH), this article explores themes of transition and change in the lives of 150 women baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1951) in relation to Beck's theories of the risk society, reflexive modernisation and individualisation. Few studies have explicitl...

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Back to my old self and life restarting: Biographies of ageing in beck's risk society

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TN_cdi_sage_journals_10_1177_1440783318766150

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_sage_journals_10_1177_1440783318766150

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ISSN

1440-7833

E-ISSN

1741-2978

DOI

10.1177/1440783318766150

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