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No Stopping Us Now Lib/E: The Adventures of Older Women in American History Library Edition
Contributor(s): Collins, Gail (Introduction by), Eby, Tanya (Read by)
ISBN: 1549154184     ISBN-13: 9781549154188
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
OUR PRICE:   $95.39  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: October 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Women
- History | United States - General
- History | Social History
Physical Information: 2" H x 6.1" W x 6.9" (0.95 lbs)
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Generational Orientation - Elderly/Aged
 
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Publisher Description:
A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist.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 age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.

Contributor Bio(s): Eby, Tanya: -

Tanya Eby is a novelist and an audiobook narrator who has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards and been nominated for the Audie Award. She has a BA degree in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine.

Collins, Gail: - Gail Collins is a columnist for the New York Times. From 2001-2007 she was editorial page editor of the paper--the first woman to have held that position.