| Description |
viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Gerontology.
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Aging.
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Feminist theory.
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| Added Author |
Pearsall, Marilyn.
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| ISBN |
0813381622 hardcover |
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0813381630 paperback |
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