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The Other Within Us: Feminist Explorations Of Women And Aging

Autor Marilyn Pearsall
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 sep 2019
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
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367318840
ISBN-10: 0367318849
Pagini: 292
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction -- Situating -- The Double Standard of Aging -- Portnoy's Mother's Complaints -- The Plight of Older Black Women -- The Feminization of Poverty Among the Elderly -- Older Women in the City -- Problematizing -- Friends or Foes -- Heresy in the Female Body -- Gender, Race, and Class -- The View from Over the Hill -- Adult Daughters and Care for the Elderly -- What Setting Limits May Mean -- Representing -- Sunset Boulevard -- Remembering Our Foremothers -- Visible Difference -- Time Will Tell -- Privileging -- Toward Another Dimension ... -- Indian Summer -- In the Heat of Shadow -- Mirror of Strength -- The Space Crone -- Serenity and Power

Notă biografică

Marilyn Pearsall teaches philosophy and women's studies at the University of Puget Sound and is a research associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research centre.

Descriere

This book addresses the neglect and isolation, the older women have experienced within contemporary feminism and gerontology. It presents the varied responses of women to the stereotypes and societal invalidation that they must grapple with throughout the aging process.