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Reclaimed Powers: Men and Women in Later Life (Psychosocial Issues)

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Interesting book, but poor anthroplolgy.
He picks and choses his cultures and cites what seems to agree with him.
He seems to hae never gone to a geiratric center where women sit around knitting, or talking about their children who don't call
He misses the aggression in young women sand girls - the competativeness to attract males, be prettier, etc.
He does rescognize the passivity that grows in old men as they lose there 'virilty', but they still look.
Old men whose youth did not involve much physical prowness, but intellectual prowness, often fit the role of senior advisor he talks about, even in American socieity.
Even this review is an exmple of male aggressivewness in old age.