Four professional women over sixty years old share their insights into the place of older women in a youth-oriented society, and offer practical advice to women of all ages about getting the most out of life. Original.
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This is a brief book that doesn't fetishize fifty,
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This review is from: The New Older Woman: A Dialogue for the Coming Century (Paperback)
{This is} a brief book that doesn't fetishize fifty and that collages different voices. Though its contributors rarely object or probe or mention negatives--nor ask how and why 'women' are changed into 'older women'--some present important facts and perspectives succinctly. Gwen Yeo, director of the Stanford Geriatric Education Center, notes that 'Women over fifty are less prone to epression than any other age or gender group.' Artist Claire Falkenstein, trying to undermine the prejudice that creativity wanes with age, says that before her eighties she had never been able to use 'a symbolic language in the way I do now.'From Margaret Morganroth Gullette - Women's Review of Books
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Discussions cover sexuality, beauty, politics and more,
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This review is from: The New Older Woman: A Dialogue for the Coming Century (Paperback)
{The} candid conversations found in this volume inspire, amaze, and challenge attitudes about women and aging. . . . Skillfully woven by the authors, discussions cover sexuality and enopause, beauty, eccentricity, housing, politics, careers, mentoring, risk-taking, and more.Despite the acknowledged lackof socioeconomic and ethnic diversity reflected here, these proceedings make an important contribution to understanding women's place in the world today. Thoughtfully designed with large clear type. Detailed participant biographies appended. From Paulette Bochnig Sharkey - Small Press
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