The fountain of age /

The fountain of age / Betty Friedan.

In 1963, Betty Friedan's transcendent work, The Feminine Mystique, changed forever the way women thought about themselves and the way society thought about women. In 1993, with The Fountain of Age, Friedan changes forever the way all of us, men and women, think about ourselves as we grow older...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedan, Betty (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [1993]
Series:Biographies (Booknotes)
Science, health & technology (Booknotes)
Subjects:
Old age > United States.
Older people > United States.
Older women > United States.
Aging > Social aspects > United States.
Ageism > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Denial and the "problem" of age
  • The two faces of age
  • The youth short circuit
  • Why do women age longer and better than men?
  • Beyond the masculinity of youth
  • The retirement paradox
  • Chosen human work
  • Intimacy beyond the dreams of youth
  • Going beyond
  • Coming into a new place
  • To move or to stay?
  • At home in a new place
  • A paradigm shift from "cure"
  • Beyond symptoms and disease
  • The new menopause brouhaha
  • The nursing home specter
  • Dying with life
  • Age as adventure
  • Generativity.

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