The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life

Title
  1. The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life / Ann Burack-Weiss.
Published by
  1. New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Author
  1. Burack-Weiss, Ann.

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Description
  1. xx, 185 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "Ann Burack-Weiss, a gerontologist with more than forty years of experience, analyzes and engages with the writings of a dozen well-known authors for insights into old age. Featured are Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, M.F.K Fisher, Doris Grumbach, Carolyn Heilburn, Doris Lessing, Florida Scott-Maxwell, May Sarton, Anne Roiphe, and Alexis Kate Shulman, among others, all of whom wrote about essential issues in old age including physical changes and disability, living alone, reflecting on and revaluing the past, generativity, public life, and the changing roles of family and friends. Burack-Weiss frames the reading of these texts in relevant theory and research including an introduction that discusses narrative theory and developmental, gerontological, and feminist perspectives on the older woman" --
Alternative title
  1. Writing an old woman's life
Subject
  1. Old age in literature
  2. Older women in literature
  3. Aging in literature
  4. Literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  5. Life change events in literature
  6. Life cycle, Human, in literature
  7. Life change events in old age
  8. Literature > Women authors
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Call number
  1. JFD 15-4385
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Author
  1. Burack-Weiss, Ann.
Title
  1. The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life / Ann Burack-Weiss.
Publisher
  1. New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN
  1. 2015008944
ISBN
  1. 9780231151849 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0231151845 (cloth : alk. paper)
  3. 9780231525336 (e-book)
  4. 9780231151856 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  5. 0231151853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFD 15-4385
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