The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life / Ann Burack-Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burack-Weiss, Ann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Old age in literature.

Older women in literature.

Aging in literature.

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Life change events in literature.

Life cycle, Human, in literature.

Life change events in old age.

Literature--Women authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 185 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Writing an old woman's life

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Summary:

"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" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Who Is That Old Woman? 19

2 What She Thinks About Sometimes, Some Days, About Some Things 33

3 I Had Looked At Myself in the Full-Length Mirror 43

4 How We Are With Each Other 57

5 But Who Were They? 71

6 There is a Grace in Death, There is Life 89

7 My Map of a Place 101

8 Interested in Big Things and Happy in Small Ways 115

9 Just Show Up 129

10 Fierce With Reality 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780231151849

0231151845

9780231151856

0231151853

OCLC:

906027733