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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 womens experience of late life is shaped by the effects of lifelong gender norms, by contemporary culturefrom gender stereotypes to ageismand 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 levelssocietal, cultural, political, and individual. This interdisciplinary look at key questions around gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.
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Praise for Women in Late Life
Martha Holstein has long been one of the best writers on the health care issues, politics, and ethics of aging. Her analysis in Women in Late Life is superb. Margaret Cruikshank, University of Maine; author of Learning to Be Old
Martha Holstein advances a brilliant interpretation of the challenges faced by women in old age, effectively deploying a feminist lens to illumine multiple social inequalities shaped, particularly, by gender and social class. Frida Kerner Furman, DePaul University
Reading this book makes me excited to teach Sociology of Aging again. Martha Holstein accomplishes here what no other book in the field offers by offering a comprehensive interdisciplinary text that is part personal and community narrative, part social science and ethics of aging, and part feminist gerontology. I know that my students will appreciate being invited into this well-researched conversation with noted gerontologist and ethicist Martha Holstein, who has been thinking about these issues for a long time, and it shows. Meika Loe, Colgate University; author of Aging Our Way
Martha Holstein has written a highly intelligent work that blends extraordinary scholarship with personal experience through a critical gerontological and feminist framework. This book is pertinent for all women and men to embrace (rather than evade) age as a valued work in progress. Marcia Spira, Loyola University Chicago
Women in Late Life is a profound contribution to feminist scholarship and critical gerontology, vividly portraying the intersectionality of ageism, sexism, ableism, classism, and power; and critiquing gerontological paradigms of successful and productive aging influenced by our societal values of independence and privatization. The book is a remarkable blend of the personal and the political, relying on womens voices and individual biographies intersecting with the scholarly evidence base on gender and aging. The reader will savor the deep wisdom and insights embedded in Holsteins eloquent writing and find the book hard to put down. This book is a gift in the finest sense of the word. Nancy Hooyman, University of Washington
It is critical that those of us who work with older women read Martha Holsteins book. It will help build empathy and understanding of the many societal factors, including ageism, that have come together to form the expectations and structures in which older women live their lives. Robyn L. Golden, Director of Health and Aging, Rush University Medical Center
Diversity and Aging
Series Editor: Toni Calasanti, Virginia Tech
The elder population is not only growing in size, but also becoming more diverseincluding differences in gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexualityand the experiences of aging people can vary dramatically. Books in this series explore this diversity, focusing on the ways that these social inequalities, along with ageism, shape experiences of growing old. The series will illustrate the challenges and opportunities that diversity and aging present for society, both now and in the future.
Facing Age: Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture by Laura Hurd Clarke
As the Leaves Turn Gold: Asian Americans and Aging by Bandana Purkayastha, Miho Iwata, Shweta Majumdar, Ranita Ray, and Trisha Tiamzon
Women in Late Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age by Martha Holstein
Women in Late Life
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age
Martha Holstein
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
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Holstein, Martha.
Women in late life : critical perspectives on gender and age / Martha Holstein.
pages cm. (Diversity and aging)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4422-2286-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-2287-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-2288-5 (electronic)
1. Older women. 2. Aging. 3. Ageism. 4. Sexism. I. Title.
HQ1061.H576 2015
305.26'2dc23
2014046660
TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
Printed in the United States of America
To my daughters Jennifer and Julie Holstein and my granddaughter Ila Belle Holstein-Rosen
My hopes for an ever-better future for women and girls.
Getting the chance to say thank you to all who have helped me along the way is one of the great pleasures of writing a book like this one in which almost every woman I spoke to became a source from whom I learned something that I needed to know. I cant list them all, but I am grateful for the many, many conversations I had about a sometimes difficult subjectones own aging in an often inhospitable society.
When this book was still a dream, something that I knew I wanted to do but wasnt sure how I would carve out the time to do so, Marilyn Hennessey, then the president of the Retirement Research Foundation (RRF), said that she thought a board member might be interested in my project. She pursued the idea and to my everlasting appreciation, I received a grant from RRF that helped me start this project while still working full time. So my first thank you goes to Marilyn and, following her retirement, her successor at RRF, Irene Frye, and my program officer, Julie Kaufman, who had infinite patience with me as I fell behind my schedule because of another book project. Without the generous and timely support of RRF, I am not sure I would be writing these words today.
My second thank you goes to the philosophy department at Loyola University, Chicago, where I taught part-time for a number of years. Through its auspices I had library privileges, a place to work, and generous colleagues with whom to talk. Again, without those privileges, I would not have been able to do the research that a book of this sort requires.
My third thank you goes to the wonderful women of Mayslake whom I mention often throughout the book and will introduce in a brief essay devoted specifically to them that follows the introduction. For now, I will simply say that for almost three years we have talked and laughed and gotten angry when that seemed to be necessary. They taught me a great deal while cheering me on when I seemed to be flagging. I have also been fortunate to have the chance to colead a series of discussions called Exploring Our Aging Selves for women over sixty at my synagogue in Evanston, Illinois. Despite differences in backgrounds from the women at Mayslake, there was agreement that we need to be informed, politically engaged, and accepting of what it means to become older (not all were ready to accept the term old) in our society today.
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