| Description |
xiii, 164 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"... simultaneously issued by the Haworth Press ... as a special issue of the Journal of Women & Aging, volume 2, number 2 1990." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface / Beth B. Hess -- Women and varieties of ageism / Evelyn R. Rosenthal -- Being old: seven women, seven views / Noreen Hale -- Friendships among old women / Ruth Harriet jacobs -- Untitled / Mira Josefowitz Spektor -- On gray hair and oppressed brains / Ann E. Gerike -- Reality? / Ingrid Reti -- Hidden death: the sexual effects of hysterectomy / Dorin Schumacher -- Sonnet / Mira Jossefowitz Spektor -- Love and work after 60: an integration of personal and professional growth within a long-term marriage / Rachel Josefowitz Siegel -- We are not your mothers: report on two groups for women over sixty / Rachel Josefowitz Siegel -- At sixty-one / Ingrid Reti -- Extended care-giving: the experience of surviving spouses / Sandra L. Quinn-Musgrove -- Duologue / Ingrid Reti -- Reflections of midlife lesbians on their adolescence / Barbara E. Sang -- Women in dual-career families and the challenge of retirement / Joy B. Reeves |
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Invention begins at forty: older women of the 19th century as inventors / Autumn Stanley -- Inventing freedom: the positive poetic "mutterings" of older women / Jo C. Searles. |
| Subject |
Older women -- United States.
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Aging -- United States.
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Ageism -- United States.
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| Indexed Term |
English literature Influence of Puritanism |
| Added Author |
Rosenthal, Evelyn R.
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| ISBN |
0918393736 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780918393739 paperback alkaline paper |
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0198117817 |
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9780198117810 |
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