The Lioness in Winter : : Writing an old Woman's Life
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"Ann Burack-Weiss, a gerontologist with more than forty years of experience, analyzes and engages with the writings of a dozen well-known authors for insights into old age. Featured are Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, M.F.K Fisher, Doris Grumbach, Carolyn Heilburn, Doris Lessing, Florida Scott-Maxwell, May Sarton, Anne Roiphe, and Alexis Kate Shulman, among others, all of whom wrote about essential issues in old age including physical changes and disability, living alone, reflecting on and revaluing the past, generativity, public life, and the changing roles of family and friends. Burack-Weiss frames the reading of these texts in relevant theory and research including an introduction that discusses narrative theory and developmental, gerontological, and feminist perspectives on the older woman" -- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: xx, 185 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780231151849
0231151845
9780231151856
0231151853
SUBJECTS
Old age in literature.
Older women in literature.
Aging in literature.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Life change events in literature.
Life cycle, Human, in literature.
Life change events in old age.