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Aging --- Older men. --- Older women in literature. --- Older women. --- Social aspects.

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Old age in literature. --- Older women in literature. --- Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature. --- Women and literature. --- American fiction --- Canadian fiction --- History and criticism. --- Women authors

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When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional gerontological and social work literature offered little help, so she turned to the late-life works of beloved women authors who had bravely climbed the mountain and sent back news from the summit. Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, Marguerite Duras, M. F. K. Fisher, Doris Lessing, Mary Oliver, Adrienne Rich, May Sarton, and Florida Scott-Maxwell were among the many guides she turned to for inspiration. In The Lioness in Winter, Burack-Weiss blends an analysis of key writings from these and other famed women authors with her own wisdom to create an essential companion for older women and those who care for them. She fearlessly examines issues such as living with loss, finding comfort and joy in unexpected places, and facing disability and death. This book is filled with powerful passages from women who turned their experiences of aging into art, and Burack-Weiss ties their words to her own struggles and epiphanies, framing their collective observations with key insights from social work practice.

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Greek literature --- Women and literature --- Eurycleia (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Older women in literature. --- Authority in literature. --- Nurses in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Euripides --- Sophocles --- Aeschylus --- Homer --- Characters --- Nurses. --- Eurycleia. --- History and criticism --- Homère --- Authority in literature --- Eurycleia (Greek mythology) in literature --- Nurses in literature --- Older women in literature --- Aged women in literature --- Sofokles --- Sophocle --- Sofocle --- Sophokles --- Sofocles --- Homeros --- Aischylos --- Eschilo --- Eschyle --- Eschylus --- Homerus --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Euryclée --- Euripide (0480-0406-av.-J.-C.) --- Sophocle (0496?-0406-av.-J.-C.) --- Eschyle (0525?-0456-av.-J.-C.) --- mythologie grecque --- Dans la littérature --- Personnages --- Euryclée --- Dans la littérature

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This timely collection engages with representations of women and ageing in literature and visual culture. Acknowledging that cultural conceptions of ageing are constructed and challenged across a variety of media and genres, the editors bring together experts in literature and visual culture to foster a dialogue across disciplines. Exploring the process of ageing in its cultural reflections, refractions and reimaginings, the contributors to Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture analyse how artists, writers, directors and performers challenge, and in some cases reaffirm, cultural constructions of ageing women, as well as give voice to ageing women’s subjectivities. The book concludes with an afterword by Germaine Greer which suggests possible avenues for future research. .

Older women in literature. --- Aging in literature. --- Aging --- Social aspects. --- Aged women in literature --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Communication. --- Literature. --- Culture and Gender. --- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. --- Media and Communication. --- Literature, general. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Social groups. --- Family. --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Association --- Group dynamics --- Groups, Social --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social participation --- Social conditions