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Author : Older Women's Network Australia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958543026
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Tell Me More - written by Older Women's Network Australia and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arloa Jane Walter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970103062
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Voices of Older Women written by Arloa Jane Walter and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Older Women'S Network Editorial Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958543002
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Untold Stories written by Older Women'S Network Editorial Group and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316286494
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book No Stopping Us Now written by Gail Collins and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine). "You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad -- for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it -- and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not. In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.
Author : Sandra Martz
Publisher : Papier-Mache Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple written by Sandra Martz and published by Papier-Mache Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings with the theme of women growing older.
Author : Janet L. Ramsey
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452263744
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Resiliency in Older Women written by Janet L. Ramsey and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-03-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persons of all ages struggle to survive losses and rewrite their life stories. Self-help books abound, yet seldom do we stop to consider living resources, the wise old persons who are among us. Gerontologists Janet L. Ramsey and Rosemary Blieszner have recorded narratives of spiritually resilient German and American women and offer here a rare combination of listening, personal story telling, and professional reflection. Avoiding simplistic answers and acknowledging the ambiguity of human experience, the authors give voice to a remarkably unheard group: strong old women. In this unique book you will find unforgettable stories of courage and faith but also provocative suggestions on how to enrich your clinical and academic work through an increased emphasis on spiritual coping. The authors also emphasize the importance of acknowledging emotions in spiritual experiences, and integrating faith and close human relationships.
Author : Jenny Joseph
Publisher : Souvenir Press
ISBN 13 : 180081142X
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Warning written by Jenny Joseph and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Utterly charming and uplifting' The Good Book Guide Voted Britain's favourite poem, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun. In the poem's respectable middle-aged woman, as she imagines herself in old age as a cheeky rebel with outrageous clothes and dotty behaviour, poet Jenny Joseph has created a character whose thoughts have been quoted at conferences and funerals, used to cheer up sick friends and remembered with pleasure by children and adults alike around the world. Here, 'Warning' appears as a beautiful updated edition with new illustrations; the perfect gift for a friend or relative who wants to grow older free from expectations, with a joyful and rebellious spirit.
Author : Jenny Bimrose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135068771
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Women's Career Development Throughout the Lifespan written by Jenny Bimrose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's careers have been a topic of research and discussion in many disciplines including sociology, business, industrial, organisational and vocational psychology, and career guidance. Despite the introduction of equal employment legislation in many countries, women’s patterns of career development continue to reflect structural labour market disadvantage. This unique book brings together expert contributions from academic researchers, as well as representing the voices of older women who participated in an international research investigation. Grounded in multidisciplinary empirical studies, the book provides: • a variety of perspectives on women's careers in the 21st century • an international exploration of the voice of the older woman • an understanding of both the challenges and responses to women as they construct their careers. Offering a comprehensive understanding of women’s career development throughout the lifespan, this book will be of key interest to academics and researchers from the fields of education, psychology, management, geography, labour market economics and sociology, as well as career practitioners, managers, trainers, researchers and policy developers.
Author : Margaret O’Neill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100024461X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Women and Ageing written by Margaret O’Neill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection considers the ways older women’s life narratives redefine culturally imposed conceptions of what it means to grow older. Drawing on research from age studies as well as social and cultural gerontology, the contributors explore the subjective accounts and diverse voices of older women. In doing so, they examine the tensions between older women’s social identities versus their individual narratives. In their chapters, the contributors acknowledge, explore and contextualise women’s experiences of growing older, thus counterbalancing the often one-sided, negative representations of ageing perpetuated by dominant cultural discourse. They focus on diverse forms of life writing including memoirs and (auto)biography, digital and visual forms of life narrative as well as autoethnographic accounts. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, life writing by and about older women often necessitates opening out literary forms and modes of critique, searching for narrative and performative strategies, and creating spaces in which to inscribe subjective experiences. Relationships, intergenerational connections, and visual and material cues are often integral to these analyses, which assert the richness of older women’s life narratives. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
Author : Mary Pipher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1632869608
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Women Rowing North written by Mary Pipher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age. Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and cultural anthropologist, she explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to the challenges they face. "If we can keep our wits about us, think clearly, and manage our emotions skillfully," Pipher writes, "we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If we have planned carefully and packed properly, if we have good maps and guides, the journey can be transcendent."
Author : Jean Shinoda Bolen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061852775
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Goddesses in Older Women written by Jean Shinoda Bolen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some point after fifty, every woman crosses a threshold into the third phase of her life. As she enters this uncharted territory -- one that is generally uncelebrated in popular culture -- she can choose to mourn what has gone before, or she can embrace the juicy-crone years. In this celebration of Act Three, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jungian analyst and bestselling author of Goddesses in Everywoman, names the powerful new energies and potentials -- or archetypes -- that come into the psyche at this momentous time, suggesting that women getting older have profound and exciting reasons for welcoming the other side of fifty.
Author : Susan J. Douglas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652564
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead written by Susan J. Douglas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] galvanizing manifesto.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice With a sharp sense of justice and wit, Susan J. Douglas raises the alarm about ageist attacks against women, whether pushed out of jobs, caricatured in the media, or preyed upon by the anti-aging industry. Douglas celebrates women defying stereotypes and embracing activism and puts forward a plan for a brighter future for all women. Entertaining and smart, you’ll want to share this book with your best friend.
Author : Heidi McCrary
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631527584
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Chasing North Star written by Heidi McCrary and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany, 1940. While struggling to survive at an orphanage, young Didi crosses paths with a rebellious, quirky girl who will either help her escape a life of abuse and uncertainty or lead her down an even darker path. Fast-forward to 1970. With help from a worn leather journal, another young girl learns the story of Didi, who escaped war-torn Germany for a better life in America—except her life didn’t turn out as expected. The stories of these two girls intertwine and eventually collide one Christmas night when Didi, all grown up, finally remembers the secret she buried long ago. Chasing North Star looks back at a time when four free-range siblings, cigarettes in hand, roamed the streets ’til sunrise and hid from a gun-toting, mentally ill mother who couldn’t help herself. Stingray bicycles, transistor radios, and late nights in the cemetery—just another day in Alamo. That is, until the youngest sibling stumbles upon Didi’s story.
Author : Lisa Congdon
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452156212
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book A Glorious Freedom written by Lisa Congdon and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The remarkable women celebrated in [this] vibrantly illustrated collection . . . offer stirring words of encouragement to any woman, of any age” (Booklist). The glory of growing older is the freedom to be more truly ourselves. With age we gain the confidence to pursue bold new endeavors and worry less about what other people think. In this richly illustrated volume, bestselling author and artist Lisa Congdon explores the power of women over the age of forty who are thriving and living life on their own terms. A Glorious Freedom includes profiles, interviews, and essays from women such as Vera Wang, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Julia Child, Cheryl Strayed, and many others who have found creative fulfillment and accomplished great things in the second half of their lives. Each section is lavishly illustrated and hand-lettered in Congdon's signature style.
Author : Frida Furman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136785760
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Facing the Mirror written by Frida Furman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women at Julie's International Salon share their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring. Their own words are at the center of the book; the stories of their lives, fresh and compelling, are told here with affection. But beyond the stories themselves, Frida Kerner Furman explores the socio-moral significance of these beauty shop experiences, showing how they reveal as much about society at large as about older women. For in telling us how they perceive reality, make choices, and live in their worlds, the women of Julie's expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the larger world that all of us, young or old, beautiful or not, face every day.
Author : Martha Holstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442222883
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Women in Late Life written by Martha Holstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and aging, including prevailing but problematic cultural expectations, body image, ageism, the experience of chronic illness, threats to Social Security and the very possibility of a secure retirement while challenging a long-term care system that disadvantages women. Author Martha Holstein writes from a critical feminist perspective, drawing on her many years of experience in gerontology, as well as interviews and personal experience as a woman now in her seventies. The book highlights how women’s experience of late life is shaped by the effects of lifelong gender norms, by contemporary culture—from gender stereotypes to ageism—and by the political context. The book blends critique with proposals aimed at resisting damaging inequities resulting from being simultaneously old and a woman. She focuses on changes needed on multiple levels—societal, cultural, political, and individual. This interdisciplinary look at key questions around gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.
Author : Ruth Ann Keyso
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801486654
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Women of Okinawa written by Ruth Ann Keyso and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three of the women were born before the Pacific War, and their first memories of Americans are of troops coming ashore with bayonets fixed. A second group, now middle-aged, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, when massive American bases were a fixture of the landscape. The youngest women, for whom the bases are a historical accident, are in their twenties and thirties, raised in a country increasingly confident of its status as a world power.".
