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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Other within us. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997 (OCoLC)605480178 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marilyn Pearsall |
| ISBN: | 0813381622 9780813381626 0813381630 9780813381633 |
| OCLC Number: | 35784751 |
| Description: | viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The double standard of aging / Susan Sontag -- Portnoy's mother's complaints / Pauline Bart -- The plight of older black women / Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson -- The feminization of poverty among the elderly / Robyn I. Stone -- Older women in the city / Elizabeth W. Markson and Beth B. Hess -- Friends or foes : gerontological and feminist theory / Shulamit Reinharz -- Heresy in the female body : the rhetorics of menopause / Jacquelyn N. zita -- Gender, race, and class : beyond the feminization of poverty in later life / Paula L. Dressel -- The view from over the hill / Baba Copper --Adult daughters and care for the elderly / Emily K. Abel -- What setting limits may mean : a feminist critique of Daniel Callahan's Setting limits / Nora K. Bell -- Sunset Boulevard : fading stars / Lucy Fischer -- Remembering our foremothers : older black women , politics of age, politics of survival as embodied in the novels of Toni Morrison / Karla F.C. Holloway and Stephanie Demetrakopoulos -- Visible difference : women artists and aging / Joanna Frisch -- Time will tell / Lucy R. Lippard -- Toward another dimension / May Sarton -- Indian summer / Paula Gunn Allen -- In the heat of shadow / Jewelle Gomez -- Mirror of strength : portrait of two Chilean arpilleristas / Marjorie Agosin -- The space crone / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Serenity and power / Germaine Greer. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Marilyn Pearsall. |
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Abstract:
Feminist women bequeath to us a powerful critique of our society's obsession with beauty and impossible body ideals. Having refused makeup, high heels, and short skirts in their youth, these women are now entering the most stigmatized stage in a woman's life - old age. As she becomes the "older woman," the feminist's rejection of beauty standards and her ability to locate self-worth is being challenged. How will feminists respond to the issues raised in this phase of their lives? By confronting the issues unique to older women in our culture and society, these authors redress the neglect and isolation experienced within contemporary feminism and gerontology.
Ultimately, the goal of the book is to inspire the aging woman to more easily embrace the "older other" within her.
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