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The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life
- Title
- The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life / Ann Burack-Weiss.
- Author
- Burack-Weiss, Ann.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-4385 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xx, 185 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Ann Burack-Weiss, a gerontologist with more than forty years of experience, analyzes and engages with the writings of a dozen well-known authors for insights into old age. Featured are Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, M.F.K Fisher, Doris Grumbach, Carolyn Heilburn, Doris Lessing, Florida Scott-Maxwell, May Sarton, Anne Roiphe, and Alexis Kate Shulman, among others, all of whom wrote about essential issues in old age including physical changes and disability, living alone, reflecting on and revaluing the past, generativity, public life, and the changing roles of family and friends. Burack-Weiss frames the reading of these texts in relevant theory and research including an introduction that discusses narrative theory and developmental, gerontological, and feminist perspectives on the older woman" --
- Alternative Title
- Writing an old woman's life
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-4385
- ISBN
- 9780231151849 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231151845 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231151856 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0231151853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780231525336 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015008944
- OCLC
- 906027733
- Author
- Burack-Weiss, Ann.
- Title
- The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life / Ann Burack-Weiss.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-4385