| Description |
viii, 272 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-272). |
| Contents |
Spirit. (Don't) act your age -- Look for inspiration -- Buoyancy matters -- Body. Just move -- Adapt -- Cultivate awe -- Brain. Learn something new -- Embrace disequilibrium -- Find your way -- Heart. Accept loss -- Join in -- Be ready for change -- Make waves (together) -- Ride the uphills and downhills -- Do it now. |
| Summary |
"Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, Why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? Tough broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like ninety-three- year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, eighty-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, fifty-two-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, sixty-four-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Chasers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren't experts. But their experiences, supported by scientific studies, offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. Tough Broad is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, in our fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light."--Inside dust jacket. |
| Subject |
Outdoor recreation for women.
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Older women -- Aging.
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Women adventurers.
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adventurers. (CStmoGRI)aat300236016
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| Genre/Form |
PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging.
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| ISBN |
9781635576498 (hardcover) |
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1635576490 (hardcover) |
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9781635576504 (ebook) |
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