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Old Enough
Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9781588385185
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
In Old Enough, twenty-one women artists and writers write about the experience of aging. Gay, straight, unmarried, partnered, widowed, Black, white, Latinx, retired, and working, these women are not...
Let's Talk About Aging Parents
A Real-Life Guide to Solving Problems with 27 Essential Conversations
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781615198023
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: The Experiment
Caring for an aging parent can raise a host of tricky questions, but these conversation-starting scripts, plus expert advice, will help you and your parent find answers.
Parenting Your Parents
Straight Talk About Aging in the Family
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CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781459754096
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A compendium of family scenarios for those dealing with the guilt, worry, and difficult decisions that come with eldercare.Is it time for your aging father to stop driving?How can you balance your career...
There Was an Old Woman
Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780870712579
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Oregon State University Press
Andrea Carlisle isn't struggling with her new identity as the Old Woman in the ways society seems to think she should. In fact, she is finding her later years to be an extraordinary and interesting time. In trying to understand the discrepancy, she interrogates the sources of negativity in literature, art, and received wisdom that often lead women to dread this transformative time of life. Given the cultural pervasiveness of ill will toward older women, it is small wonder that growing older is not seen as a natural, even desirable, process. Although some elements of aging are hard to reckon with, there is much to make use of and delight in, along with mysteries, surprises, and revelations.
In these personal essays, Carlisle looks for new ways to bring herself more fully to this time of life, such as daily walks with other women and connecting to the natural...
My Last Eight Thousand Days
An American Male in His Seventies
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780820364315
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy. A longstanding...
Where Did I Go? Reflections on So-Called Late Mothering
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781772584073
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Demeter Press
Women are having children later in life, out of choice and also aided by improved reproductive technologies. Women are also more educated than at any other time in history, with the last generation seeing women?s professional careers not as unusual, but as the norm for university educated women. This generation of tertiary educated mothers has grown up with a clear articulation of feminism, although shifts in the intra-household gendered division of labour have been more limited than hoped for. These mothers represent a generational shift in modern times and constitute a significant new demographic that cannot be ignored. For high achieving university educated women with vocational positions of authority and respect, the emotional and psychological shift entailed in dealing with the myriad demands of a child and often mundane aspects of motherhood can be overwhelming. These women are used to managing complex and highly technical issues in the workplace, yet...
Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture
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CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781800348516
Pub Date: July 2022
This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched and accessibly written, it will appeal to scholars across...
I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
A Daughter's Memoir
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780820362564
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong...
Well Aged
Making the Most of Your Platinum Years
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771623100
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Finding happiness at 80+, from the perspective of an octogenarian. Author Ralph Milton wants readers to know that old age is not a disease circling the world ready to pounce on anyone over eighty....
Aging in a Changing World
Older New Zealanders and Contemporary Multiculturalism
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978809406
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Aging in a Changing World challenges simplified images of old people as racist, nostalgic, and resistant to change - stereotypes that have only grown more prevalent with the Brexit vote and the 2016 election of Donald Trump. This book takes a deep, nuanced look at the experiences of older people who, while "aging in place," have been profoundly impacted by global population movement and the dramatic development of modern multiculturalism around them.
Changes in Care
Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781978823242
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
As Africa's population ages, the inadequacy of kin care becomes more visible. In Ghana, older people and their allies are developing fragile initiatives and programs beyond the norm of kin care. Changes in Care examines aging in Ghana as a way of understanding the unevenness of social change more widely.
Grandmothers & Grandmothering: Creative and Critical Contemplations in Honour of our Women Elders
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781772583540
Pub Date: October 2021
Today, more and more grandmothers around the world are taking on varied responsibilities and many roles, sometimes concurrently. Consequently, grandmothers continue to play, as in the past, an influential role not only in the lives of their grandchildren, but also in our communities and in society more broadly. Grandmothers and Grandmothering: Creative and Critical Contemplations in Honour of our Women Elders, as the title suggests, seeks to pay homage to our grandmothers and their contributions to society. As well, it aims to explore the textured and complex phenomena of grandmothering from a range of disciplines and cultural perspectives. Our hope is that this collection challenges preconceived notions of what it means to be a grandmother and provides insight into the multifaceted nature of grandmothering.
Mortality, with Friends
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CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780814348741
Pub Date: September 2021
is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer could...
Embracing Age
How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978822276
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Embracing Age reveals that aging is not only a biological process, but is also shaped by what the process of growing older means to us. By examining Catholic nuns, a group that experiences positive health outcomes in older age, Anna I. Corwin reveals the connections between culture, language, and the experience of aging.
Time and Migration
How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life
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CA$71.95
ISBN: 9781501754876
Pub Date: May 2021
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their needs as they grow older and how transnational...
Musings on Perimenopause and Menopause: Identity, Experience, Transition
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781772582857
Pub Date: May 2021
Imprint: Demeter Press
A woman muses about buying lovely new panties; another journeys inward and outward to redefine her life, a blogger offers information, support, and community to perimenopausal women; researchers uncover myths and misconceptions about migrant and refugee women?s experiences of menopause; a gerontology scholar extrapolates for menopause the meanings of cultural representations of childbirth; a sociologist and intersex advocate challenges her medically constructed menopause; young women?s stories inform an inquiry into the health and social repercussions of primary ovarian insufficiency?all in a collection of research papers and personal narratives that moves far beyond the idea of menopause as a mere biological marker. While biomedical and feminist researchers agree that menopause is a time of transition and border crossing, they offer diverse viewpoints about whether perimenopause and menopause signal deficiency and burden, or growth and freedom, or both. So too, contributors to this collection?influenced by factors of age, cultural background, societal context,...
Old Enough
Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9781588385185
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Let's Talk About Aging Parents
A Real-Life Guide to Solving Problems with 27 Essential Conversations
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781615198023
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: The Experiment
Parenting Your Parents
Straight Talk About Aging in the Family
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781459754096
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
There Was an Old Woman
Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780870712579
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Oregon State University Press
Andrea Carlisle isn't struggling with her new identity as the Old Woman in the ways society seems to think she should. In fact, she is finding her later years to be an extraordinary and interesting time. In trying to understand the discrepancy, she interrogates the sources of negativity in literature, art, and received wisdom that often lead women to dread this transformative time of life. Given the cultural pervasiveness of ill will toward older women, it is small wonder that growing older is not seen as a natural, even desirable, process. Although some elements of aging are hard to reckon with, there is much to make use of and delight in, along with mysteries, surprises, and revelations.
In these personal essays, Carlisle looks for new ways to bring herself more fully to this time of life, such as daily walks with other women and connecting to the natural...
My Last Eight Thousand Days
An American Male in His Seventies
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780820364315
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Where Did I Go? Reflections on So-Called Late Mothering
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781772584073
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Demeter Press
Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781800348516
Pub Date: July 2022
I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
A Daughter's Memoir
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780820362564
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Well Aged
Making the Most of Your Platinum Years
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771623100
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Aging in a Changing World
Older New Zealanders and Contemporary Multiculturalism
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978809406
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Changes in Care
Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781978823242
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Grandmothers & Grandmothering: Creative and Critical Contemplations in Honour of our Women Elders
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781772583540
Pub Date: October 2021
Mortality, with Friends
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780814348741
Pub Date: September 2021
Embracing Age
How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978822276
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Time and Migration
How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9781501754876
Pub Date: May 2021
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Musings on Perimenopause and Menopause: Identity, Experience, Transition
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781772582857
Pub Date: May 2021
Imprint: Demeter Press