- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; illustrated edition edition (Mar 11 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0847692604
- ISBN-13: 978-0847692606
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,923,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Feminists and philosophers alike have been slow to contribute to the literature of aging. Mother Time helps make up for lost time. The essays—variously trenchant, poignant, daring, and illuminating—spur us toward social justice and personal well-being in the lives of older women. (Cole, Thomas R. )
These essays are imaginative forays into the terrain where issues of gender and of aging intersect. Various moral problems are given illuminating and overdue attention, and in addressing them, the authors clarify deficiencies in much dominant moral theorizing. (Held, Virginia )
Sharp critiques and fresh writing startle us into more careful thought and (I hope) more caring advocacy. . . . The gender-savvy moral philosophy of this volume joins other new work in the arts and humanities to suggest that feminist age studies is going to have a good millennium. (Margaret Morganroth Gullette, )
Mother Time is a vivid, contentious invitation to engage in rethinking widespread assumptions about aging and gender, the better to understand ethical dimensions of women's experiences of aging. All essays are insightful, engaging, and clearly written. (Nwsa Journal )
I am greatful to the contributors to Mother Time for focusing on a number of issues associated with aging. (Mary Mahowald Hypatia )
These essays are imaginative forays into the terrain where issues of gender and of aging intersect. Various moral problems are given illuminating and overdue attention, and in addressing them, the authors clarify deficiencies in much dominant moral theorizing. (Held, Virginia )
Sharp critiques and fresh writing startle us into more careful thought and (I hope) more caring advocacy. . . . The gender-savvy moral philosophy of this volume joins other new work in the arts and humanities to suggest that feminist age studies is going to have a good millennium. (Margaret Morganroth Gullette, )
Mother Time is a vivid, contentious invitation to engage in rethinking widespread assumptions about aging and gender, the better to understand ethical dimensions of women's experiences of aging. All essays are insightful, engaging, and clearly written. (Nwsa Journal )
I am greatful to the contributors to Mother Time for focusing on a number of issues associated with aging. (Mary Mahowald Hypatia )
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Mother Time opens up a novel area of inquiry: the ethical dimension of women's experiences of aging.
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Age before beauty, Sep 6 2000
By Tom Staniewicz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics (Hardcover)
Every now and then a book appears which responds to a real need, even if you didn't know the need existed. This book breaks new ground on the issue of aging and women. The studies on images of women and how it affects women aging are especially good. Not all is perfect. Many claims are made for the differences between male aging and female aging, but little proof is given. The religious issues which surround aging are strangely absent. Still, this is a first and a scholarly one.
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