| Description |
x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part one : Looks -- There are no old Venuses : older women's responses to their aging bodies / Frida Kerner Furman -- Miroir, mémoire, mirage : appearance, aging and women / Diana Tietjens Meyers -- Part two : Lives -- Virtues and age / Sara Ruddick -- Unplanned obsolescence : some reflections on aging / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Stories of my old age / Hilde Lindemann Nelson -- Getting out of line : alternatives to life as a career / Margaret Urban Walker -- Death's gender / James Lindemann Nelson -- Part three : Looking at health care -- Old women out of control : some thoughts on aging, ethics, and psychosomatic medicine / Susan Wendell -- Menopause : taking the cures or curing the takes? / Joan C. Callahan -- Religious women, medical settings, and moral risk / Peggy DesAutels -- Age, sex, and resource allocation / Daniel Callahan -- Part four : Living arrangements -- Aging fairly : feminist and disabliity perspectives on intergenerational justice / Anita Silvers -- Home care, women, and aging : a case study of injustice / Martha Holstein -- Caring for ourselves : peer care in autonomous aging / Robin N. Fiore -- Age-segregated housing as a moral problem : an exercise in rethinking ethics / Joan C. Tronto. |
| Subject |
Older women -- Social conditions.
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Older women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Aging -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Aging -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Aging. |
| Added Author |
Walker, Margaret Urban, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0847692604 alkaline paper |
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