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It's terrible to get old? Life is all downhill after fifty? That's what our youth-centered culture may think but don't be duped. Selected as a finalist for 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards, this book can change how you think about aging, even make you feel good about getting old!". . . a liberating change is happening, a change as momentous as the liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. It brings respect for older people, appreciation for maturity, and the promise of a more balanced culture."-from the Introduction by Margaret Karmazin and Janet Amalia Weinberg.

Women --- American literature --- Older women --- Older women authors. --- Old age --- Aging --- American literature. --- Older women. --- Authors --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Aged women --- Older people --- Later life (Human life cycle) --- Senescence --- Adulthood --- Age --- Longevity --- Women's writings, American --- Women authors.

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"This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power relations interface with race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation. Serious theorizing of old age and age relations to gender represents the next frontier of feminist scholarship. In this volume, leading national and international feminist scholars of aging take first steps in this direction, illuminating how age relations interact with other social inequalities, particularly gender. In doing so, the authors challenge and transform feminist scholarship and many taken for granted concepts in gender studies." --

Ageism. --- Aging --- Feminism. --- Old age. --- Older women. --- Social aspects. --- Human medicine --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of work --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Age group sociology --- Sexology --- Human rights --- Feminism --- Gender --- Family --- Healthcare --- Age --- Ageism --- Female homosexuality --- Medicalisation --- Labour --- Seniors --- Sexuality --- Theory --- Book --- Intersectionality

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Although breakups-whether celebrity or everyday-are a constant source of fascination, surprisingly little attention has been given to women who are cut loose in their later years. This is a book about (mostly) long-term relationships that have come apart. Each woman involved, the majority of whom are over sixty, tells of her experience through journal entries, essays, poetry, or stories. Although in many senses they have been abandoned, they have also been set free, untethered, and, for some, liberated sexually, mentally, or emotionally. The book is divided into two major sections. The pieces in the first part are personal narratives. Among the varied voices, we hear from women in both heterosexual and same-sex relationships who have been left by their partners or who have decided to leave them. In the second section, the contributors look at being left and leaving from psychological, sociological, economic, sexual, medical, anthropological, and literary perspectives. Other essays explore the shared experiences of specific classes of women, such as single women, widows, or abandoned daughters.

Middle-aged women --- Women --- Man-woman relationships --- Separation (Psychology) --- Older women (Middle-aged women) --- Middle-aged persons --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Breaking up (Interpersonal relations) --- Loss of loved one by separation --- Love loss (Psychology) --- Farewells --- Interpersonal relations --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Loss (Psychology) --- Psychology

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Family Relations --- Middle Aged --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Aged --- Women --- Women's Health --- Life Change Events --- Family --- Population Characteristics --- Life Style --- Persons --- Health --- Adult --- Sociology --- Health Care --- Named Groups --- Age Groups --- Psychology, Social --- Social Sciences --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Social Psychology --- Psychologies, Social --- Social Psychologies --- Age Group --- Group, Age --- Groups, Age --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- General Social Development and Population --- Adults --- Normalcy --- Normality --- Normalities --- Person --- Life Style Induced Illness --- Lifestyle --- Life Styles --- Lifestyles --- Population Heterogeneity --- Population Statistics --- Characteristic, Population --- Characteristics, Population --- Heterogeneity, Population --- Population Characteristic --- Statistics, Population --- Extended Family --- Family Life Cycle --- Family Research --- Filiation --- Kinship Networks --- Relatives --- Family Life Cycles --- Family Members --- Family, Reconstituted --- Stepfamily --- Extended Families --- Families --- Families, Extended --- Families, Reconstituted --- Family Member --- Family, Extended --- Kinship Network --- Life Cycle, Family --- Life Cycles, Family --- Network, Kinship --- Networks, Kinship --- Reconstituted Families --- Reconstituted Family --- Research, Family --- Stepfamilies --- Analysis, Event History --- Event History Analysis --- Life Experiences --- Analyses, Event History --- Event History Analyses --- Event, Life Change --- Events, Life Change --- Experience, Life --- Experiences, Life --- Life Change Event --- Life Experience --- Woman's Health --- Womens Health --- Health, Woman's --- Health, Women's --- Health, Womens --- Girls --- Woman --- Women's Groups --- Girl --- Women Groups --- Women's Group --- Elderly --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Inequalities --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Middle Age --- Family Dynamics --- Family Relationships --- Family Relationship --- Dynamic, Family --- Dynamics, Family --- Family Dynamic --- Family Relation --- Relation, Family --- Relations, Family --- Relationship, Family --- Relationships, Family --- Quality of Life --- Social Environment --- Grandparents --- Adverse Childhood Experiences --- Adverse Childhood Experience --- Childhood Experience, Adverse --- Childhood Experiences, Adverse --- Stress, Psychological --- Geriatrics --- Longevity --- Economics --- Middle-aged women --- Older women --- Employment --- Health and hygiene --- E-books --- Psychology, Perceptual --- Perceptual Psychology --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Aged women --- Older people --- Older women (Middle-aged women) --- Middle-aged persons --- Behavior And Behavior Mechanism --- Lifestyle Factors --- Factor, Lifestyle --- Lifestyle Factor --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Life change events. --- Older people. --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Health of women --- Health education of women --- Events, Life change --- Experiences, Stressful life --- Life events, Stressful --- Life experiences, Stressful --- Stressful events --- Stressful life events --- Developmental psychology --- Experience --- Stress (Psychology) --- Health and hygiene. --- Hygiene --- Diseases