Studying the interaction of gender, class, race/ethnicity, and aging in the depression of older women provides a unique opportunity to understand aging's significant role in shaping conceptions of self and emotional health trajectories for women.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. The Way It Was
3. Marriage, Motherhood and Work
4. Doctors and Families in Health Care
5. Depression and Its Treatment
6. The Aging Feminine Self: Redemption and Transcendence
7. Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Bibliography

Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano is an associate professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California-Davis.

Charles S. Varano is a professor at the Department of Sociology at California State University-Sacramento.