Everyday Realities of Elderly Women in Southern India

Abstract

The research deals with the position of the women in the study area and the status of the aged in stratified societies. The main concern of research is to describe how modernization brought changes about the conception about elderly. The role of the elder in modern political, economic, social, cultural and religious fields is described in this research. The study concludes the social conception of elderly women with light of feminist theories. It explains how the discursive practices of present situation in Southern India.