Mother Time Women, Aging, and Ethics

by Walker, Margaret Urban; Bartky, Sandra Lee; Callahan, Daniel; Callahan, Joan C.; DesAutels, Peggy; Fiore, Robin; Furman, Frida Kerner; Holstein, Martha; Meyers, Diana Tietjens; Nelson, Hilde Lindemann; Nelson, James Lindemann; Ruddick, Sara; Silvers, Anit

• ISBN13: 9780847692613
• ISBN10: 0847692612
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's experiences of aging. Fifteen distinguished contributors here explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life. The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that has predominated to date. Ethical studies of aging have so far failed to emphasize gender. And feminist ethics has neglected older women, even when emphasizing other dimensions of 'difference.' Finally work on aging in all fields has focused on the elderly, while this volume sees aging as an extended process of negotiating personal and social change.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Looks
There Are No Old Venuses: Older Women's Responses to Their Aging Bodies	p. 7
Miroir, Memoire, Mirage: Appearance, Aging, and Women	p. 23
Lives
Virtues and Age	p. 45
Unplanned Obsolescence: Some Reflections on Aging	p. 61
Stories of My Old Age	p. 75
Getting Out of Line: Alternatives to Life As a Career	p. 97
Death's Gender	p. 113
Looking at Health Care
Old Women Out of Control: Some Thoughts on Aging, Ethics, and Psychosomatic Medicine	p. 133
Menopause: Taking the Cures or Curing the Takes?	p. 151
Religious Women, Medical Settings, and Moral Risk	p. 175
Age, Sex, and Resource Allocation	p. 189
Living Arrangements
Aging Fairly: Feminist and Disability Perspectives on Intergenerational Justice	p. 203
Home Care, Women, and Aging: A Case Study of Injustice	p. 227
Caring for Ourselves: Peer Care in Autonomous Aging	p. 245
Age-Segregated Housing As a Moral Problem: An Exercise in Rethinking Ethics	p. 261
Index	p. 279
About the Contributors	p. 289
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