The relationship between gender, aging and the State in determining the material, social and psychological experiences of older people raises profoundly important questions of theory, practice and politics.

Contributors include: Jane Aronson, Marilyn Bicher, Rita Bonar, Michael MacLean, Nancy Houlahan, Frances Barskey.

Barbara Nichols is associate professor of social work at McGill University, Montreal. Peter Leonard is professor of social work at McGill University and past president of the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work. He is the author of Personality and Ideology and General Editor of Critical Texts in Social Work and the Welfare State.

Third in the series of monographs, School of Social Work, McGill University.