Grandmothers

Geoff Dench is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Community Studies and professor of sociology at Middlesex University. He is the author of Transforming Men and Rewriting the Sexual Contract, both published by Transaction.

• Acknowledgement, Preface: Why grandmothers?, VETERAN GRANDMOTHERS, Calling all grandparents, Watching the family unfold, The long march, Starting all over again, What revolution: whose revolution?, Diary of a supergran, A continuous revolution, EXPERIENCED HANDS, Finding out what is important, The step-grandmother's experience, Where were you in the revolution, Granny?, On being a grandmother, Where have the neighbours gone?, A grandmother dispossessed, Our changing lives, Generation to generation, NEWER RECRUITS, Going down my Nan's, Grandma: Mark 2000, The new grandmother, My friend Cato, Handing on, Losing a son without gaining a daughter, Countdown to becoming a granny for the 21st Century, GRANDMOTHERS-IN-WAITING, Contemplating grandmotherhood, The grandmother manqué, Waiting fairly patiently, APPENDICES, Notes, References