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This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's experiences of aging. Fifteen distinguished contributors here explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life.The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that has predominated to date. Ethical studies of aging have so far failed to emphasize gender. And feminist ethics has neglected older women, even when emphasizing other dimensions of "difference." Finally work on aging in all fields has focused on the elderly, while this volume sees aging as an extended process of negotiating personal and social change.
Margaret Urban Walker is professor of philosophy at Fordham University. She is the author of Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Routledge, 1998). She lives in New York City.
Part 1 IntroductionMargaret Urban WalkerPart 2 AcknowledgmentsPart 3 IntroductionPart 4 I: LooksChapter 5 1 "There Are No Old Venuses": Older Women's Responses To Their Aging BodiesChapter 6 2 Miroir, Memoir, Mirage: Appearance, Aging , and WomenPart 7 II: LivesChapter 8 3 Virtues and AgeChapter 9 4 Unplanned Obsolescence: Some Reflections On AgingChapter 10 5 Stories of My Old AgeChapter 11 6 Getting Out Of Line: Alternatives To Life As A CareerChapter 12 7 Death's GenderPart 13 III: Looking At Health CareChapter 14 8 Old Women Out Of Control: Some Thoughts On Aging, Ethics, and Psychosomatic MedicineChapter 15 9 Menopause: Taking the Cure or Curing the Takes?Chapter 16 10 Religious Women, Medical Settings, and Moral RiskChapter 17 11 Age, Sex, and Resource AllocationPart 18 IV: Living ArrangementsChapter 19 12 Aging Fairly: Feminist and Disability Perspectives on Intergenerational JusticeChapter 20 13 Home Care, Women, and Aging: A Case Study of InjusticeChapter 21 14 Caring for Ourselves: Peer Care in Autonomous AgingRobin FiroeChapter 22 15 Age Segregated housing as a Moral Problem: An Exercise in Rethinking EthicsPart 23 IndexPart 24 About the Contributors
Feminists and philosophers alike have been slow to contribute to the literature of aging. Mother Time helps make up for lost time. The essays—variously trenchant, poignant, daring, and illuminating—spur us toward social justice and personal well-being in the lives of older women.
Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk, Margaret Urban Walker, Hilde (Michigan State University) Lindemann, The Netherlands) Verkerk, Marian (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Wisconsin) Urban Walker, Margaret (Marquette University
Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk, Margaret Urban Walker, Hilde (Michigan State University) Lindemann, The Netherlands) Verkerk, Marian (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Wisconsin) Urban Walker, Margaret (Marquette University