The Other within Us: Feminist Explorations of Women and Aging

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction 1
• Notes 16
• Part One - Situating 17
• 1 - The Double Standard of Aging 19
• 2 - Portnoy's Mother's Complaints 25
• 3 - The Plight of Older Black Women 37
• References 41
• 4 - The Feminization of Poverty Among the Elderly 43
• Notes 54
• 5 - Older Women in the City 57
• Notes 68
• Part Two - Problematizing 71
• 6 Friends or Foes - Gerontological and Feminist Theory 73
• Notes 91
• References 91
• 7 Heresy in the Female Body - The Rhetorics of Menopause 95
• Notes 110
• References 110
• 8 Gender, Race, and Class - Beyond the Feminization of Poverty in Later Life 113
• Notes 119
• References 119
• 9 - The View from Over the Hill 121
• Notes 134
• 10 - Adult Daughters and Care for the Elderly 135
• Notes 146
• 11 What Setting Limits May Mean - A Feminist Critique of Danielcallahan's Setting Limits 151
• Notes 158
• References 159
• Part Three - Representing 161
• 12 Sunset Boulevard - Fading Stars 163
• Notes 175
• 13 - Remembering Our Foremothers Older Black Women, Politics of Age, Politics of Survival as Embodied in the Novels of Toni Morrison 177
• Notes 193
• 14 Visible Difference - Women Artists and Aging 197
• Notes 214
• 15 - Time Will Tell 221
• Part Four - Privileging 227
• 16 - Toward Another Dimension . . . 229
• 17 - Indian Summer 233
• 18 - In the Heat of Shadow 239
• 19 - Mirror of Strength Portrait of Two Chilean Arpilleristas 243
• 20 - The Space Crone 249
• 21 - Serenity and Power 253
• Notes 273
• Credits 275
• About the Book and Editor 277
• About the Contributors 279

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