No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America

Name: No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America
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ISBN: 9780316286541

ISBN-10: 0316286540

ISBN-13: 9780316286541

Edition: 2019

Authors: Gail Collins

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"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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English