Table of Contents

Contents
Preface

• Women and Varieties of Ageism
• Being Old: Seven Women, Seven Views
• Friendships Among Old Women
• Untitled (Poem)
• On Gray Hair and Oppressed Brains
• Reality? (Poem)
• Hidden Death: The Sexual Effects of Hysterectomy
• Sonnet (Poem)
• Love and Work After 60: An Integration of Personal and Professional Growth Within a Long-Term Marriage
• We Are Not Your Mothers: Report on Two Groups for Women Over Sixty
• At Sixty-One (Poem)
• Extended Care-Giving: The Experience of Surviving Spouses
• Duologue (Poem)
• Reflections of Midlife Lesbians on Their Adolescence
• Women in Dual-Career Families and the Challenge of Retirement
• Invention Begins at Forty: Older Women of the 19th Century as Inventors
• Inventing Freedom: The Positive Poetic “Mutterings” of Older Women
• Index

About the Author

Evelyn R Rosenthal