| The Fountain of Age Contributor(s): Friedan, Betty (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743299876 ISBN-13: 9780743299879 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to offer a vision of what can be embraced. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Later Years - Social Science | Gerontology - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.260 |
| Physical Information: 1.64" H x 6.38" W x 9.32" (1.60 lbs) 672 pages |
| Themes: - Generational Orientation - Elderly/Aged - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her own voyage of discovery, and that of others, into a different kind of aging. Friedan found ordinary men and women, moving into their fifties, sixties, seventies, discovering extraordinary new possibilities of intimacy and purpose. In their surprising experiences, Friedan first glimpsed, then embraced, the idea that one can grow and evolve throughout life in a style that dramatically mitigates the expectation of decline and opens the way to a further dimension of personhood. The Fountain of Age suggests new possibilities for every one of us, all founded on a solid body of startling but little-known scientific evidence. It demolishes those myths that have constrained us for too long and offers compelling alternatives for living one's age as a unique, exuberant time of life, on its own authentic terms. |
Contributor Bio(s): Friedan, Betty: - A founder of NOW and a vanguard leader of the Women's Movement, Betty Friedan was the author of The Feminine Mystique, It Changed My Life, The Second Stage, Beyond Gender, and The Fountain of Age. She taught at Northwestern University, Yale, Temple, Harvard, and USC. She died in 2006. |