| Reclaimed Powers: Men and Women in Later Life Contributor(s): Gutmann, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810111209 ISBN-13: 9780810111202 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gerontology - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Later Years - Psychology |
| Dewey: 305.26 |
| LCCN: 94-3892 |
| Series: Psychosocial Issues |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.05" W x 8.94" (1.12 lbs) 310 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A unique feature of human development is that mothers and fathers are bound to a long period of childrearing, during which the continuity of our species depends on the fulfillment of distinct parental roles and on the suppression of psychological potentials that conflict with those roles. But once the parental emergency is over, David Gutmann argues, men and women can assert those parts of themselves curbed by the restrictions of raising children. It is this shift in roles--a product of evolution found throughout our species--that led David Gutmann to propose a new psychology of aging, based not on the prospect of loss but on the promise of important new pleasures and capacities. |