Research Catalog

Title

Look me in the eye : old women, aging and ageism / Barbara Macdonald with Cynthia Rich.

Author

Macdonald, Barbara, 1913-

Publication

Denver, CO : Spinsters Ink Books, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rich, Cynthia.

Description

xvi, 182 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Ageism
• Aging
• Old age
• Older lesbians
• Older women > Psychology
• Older women > Social conditions
• Older women

Note

• Expanded ed. of 2nd ed., c1991, with preface by Lise Weil and new afterword by Cynthia Rich.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In the Service of Truth: Remembering Barbara Macdonald -- Barbara's Introduction -- Cynthia's Introduction -- Do You Remember Me? -- Exploitation by Compassion -- Aging, Ageism and Feminist Avoidance -- An Open Letter to the Women's Movement -- The Women in the Tower -- The Power of the Old Woman -- Outside the Sisterhood: Ageism in Women's Studies -- A Call for an End To Ageism in Lesbian and Gay Services -- Ageism and the Politics of Beauty -- A movement of old lesbians -- Old Women's Rights: A Report at Beijing -- Professionalism is not Benign.

ISBN

1883523400 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library