Title from container. Subtitle from container spine. Read by Tanya Eby; foreword read by the author. Compact discs.
Summary:
In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates how age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "Civil, and under 50 years of age₂") to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction. To recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.
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