Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism - Barbara Macdonald, Cynthia Rich

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Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism, Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich, 1978-1983, United States, ESSAYS

"Because of her sexuality, her life has been that of an "other;" now in her sixties, she finds she has joined a second group of "others" in United States culture—she is an old woman...In the essay "An Open Letter to the Women's Movement," she challenges the notion that older people talk too much about their health; younger women, she notes, endlessly discuss "abortion, contraception, pre-menstrual syndromes, toxic shock or turkey basters."..."

(H.S., p. 111)