Mother Time Women, Aging, and Ethics
by Walker, Margaret Urban; Bartky, Sandra Lee; Callahan, Daniel; Callahan, Joan C.; DesAutels, Peggy; Fiore, Robin; Furman, Frida Kerner; Holstein, Martha; Meyers, Diana Tietjens; Nelson, Hilde Lindemann; Nelson, James Lindemann; Ruddick, Sara; Silvers, AnitDownloadable: 120 Days
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Looks | |
There Are No Old Venuses: Older Women's Responses to Their Aging Bodies | p. 7 |
Miroir, Memoire, Mirage: Appearance, Aging, and Women | p. 23 |
Lives | |
Virtues and Age | p. 45 |
Unplanned Obsolescence: Some Reflections on Aging | p. 61 |
Stories of My Old Age | p. 75 |
Getting Out of Line: Alternatives to Life As a Career | p. 97 |
Death's Gender | p. 113 |
Looking at Health Care | |
Old Women Out of Control: Some Thoughts on Aging, Ethics, and Psychosomatic Medicine | p. 133 |
Menopause: Taking the Cures or Curing the Takes? | p. 151 |
Religious Women, Medical Settings, and Moral Risk | p. 175 |
Age, Sex, and Resource Allocation | p. 189 |
Living Arrangements | |
Aging Fairly: Feminist and Disability Perspectives on Intergenerational Justice | p. 203 |
Home Care, Women, and Aging: A Case Study of Injustice | p. 227 |
Caring for Ourselves: Peer Care in Autonomous Aging | p. 245 |
Age-Segregated Housing As a Moral Problem: An Exercise in Rethinking Ethics | p. 261 |
Index | p. 279 |
About the Contributors | p. 289 |
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