L’abstract
This article explores how women, and especially old women, after being rendered invisible were brought back into the spotlight through a participatory action research project designed to rethink how solidarity can increase self-reliance during old age in collective housing. The piece accounts for the different methods employed to move these women from the margins to the center of this research project. The article has two goals. First, it aims at highlighting critical conceptions of gender and age that had disappeared into the background despite their centrality for the activist organization that started this research. Second, it analyzes how this marginalization came to pass, and the tools and methods used to reverse it so that researchers could “speak with” these old women and promote the co-construction of knowledge.
