178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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Here is a unique text that examines the lives of middle-aged and old women. Women, Aging and Ageism, in response to the lack of literature that focuses on aging women, presents timely and definitive research that illustrates the implications of ageism and sexism. This landmark volume challenges powerful myths and dangerous stereotypes and identifies the damaging restrictions that society forces... Read more
Contents
Preface
- Women and Varieties of Ageism
- Being Old: Seven Women, Seven Views
- Friendships Among Old Women
- Untitled (Poem)
- On Gray Hair and Oppressed Brains
- Reality? (Poem)
- Hidden Death: The Sexual Effects of Hysterectomy
- Sonnet (Poem)
- Love and Work After 60: An Integration of Personal and Professional Growth Within a Long-Term Marriage
- We Are Not Your Mothers: Report on Two Groups for Women Over Sixty
- At Sixty-One (Poem)
- Extended Care-Giving: The Experience of Surviving Spouses
- Duologue (Poem)
- Reflections of Midlife Lesbians on Their Adolescence
- Women in Dual-Career Families and the Challenge of Retirement
- Invention Begins at Forty: Older Women of the 19th Century as Inventors
- Inventing Freedom: The Positive Poetic “Mutterings” of Older Women
- Index
Biography
Evelyn R Rosenthal
