Women and Aging: Celebrating Ourselves

by Ruth Raymond Thone and Ellen Cole

Book Overview

In our youth-oriented, patriarchal society, aging and older women often find themselves either ignored, pitied, or feared. Women and Aging is a valuable guide to help women break through the negative stereotypes of old age and find personal fulfillment through the stages of maturity. Full of warmth and support, Women and Aging strongly enables women to take and remain in control of their lives instead of passively letting others make life-changing--and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560230053
• ISBN13: 9781560230052
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Women's studies - aging - gerontolgy

Break through the negative stereotype of old age and find personal fulfillment during your mature years. Ruth Thone's guide, full of warmth and support, enables you take and remain in control of your life instead of passively letting others making life changing- and posibly harmful - decisins for you. This book helps you increase the vitality of your older years as you learn how to plan for the future, keep and develop strong relationships, increase your overall wellness and take risks. This book is a celebration of aging with the author's illuminating descriptions of her own aging and how she herself has overcome society's restrictions. Sure to be a source of inspiration for all women- no matter what their ages - who want to take active control of their lives. (from backcover). Ruth Raymond Thone is a writer, teacher, community activist and speaker. She has been active in progressive politics for many years. She records her dreams and visits her grown daughters while living in Lincoln Nebraska.