Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics 0847692612, 9780847692613

This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's

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Table of contents :
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction • Margaret Urban Walker
Part One: Looks
1 There Are No Old Venuses: Older Women’s Responses to Their Aging Bodies • Frida Kerner Furman
2 Miroir, Memoire, Mirage: Appearance, Aging, and Women • Diana Tietjens Meyers
Part Two: Lives
3 Virtues and Age • Sara Ruddick
4 Unplanned Obsolescence: Some Reflections on Aging • Sandra Lee Bartky
5 Stories of My Old Age • Hilde Lindemann Nelson
6 Getting Out of Line: Alternatives to Life As a Career • Margaret Urban Walker
7 Death’s Gender • James Lindemann Nelson
Part Three: Looking at Health Care
8 Old Women Out of Control: Some Thoughts on Aging, Ethics, and Psychosomatic Medicine • Susan Wendell
9 Menopause: Taking the Cures or Curing the Takes? • Joan C. Callahan
10 Religious Women, Medical Settings, and Moral Risk • Peggy DesAutels
11 Age, Sex, and Resource Allocation • Daniel Callahan
Part Four: Living Arrangements
12 Aging Fairly: Feminist and Disability Perspectives on Intergenerational Justice • Anita Silvers
13 Home Care, Women, and Aging: A Case Study of Injustice • Martha Holstein
14 Caring for Ourselves: Peer Care in Autonomous Aging • Robin N. Fiore
15 Age-Segregated Housing As a Moral Problem: An Exercise in Rethinking Ethics • Joan C. Tronto
Index
About the Contributors
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Mother Tillle Women, Aging, and Ethics

Edited by Margaret Urban Walker

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham· Boulder· New York· Oxford

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706 http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com 12 Hid's Copse Road Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 911, England Copyright © 1999 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Chapter 2 copyright © 1999 by Diana Tietjens Meyers Chapter 3 copyright © 1999 by Sara Ruddick First paperback printing 2000 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval "system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available The hardback edition of this book was catalogued by the Library of Congress as follows: Mother time: women, aging, and ethics / edited by Margaret Urban Walker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Aged women-Social conditions. 2. Aging-Moral and ethical aspects. I. Walker, Margaret Urban, 1948HQI061.M67 1999 305.26--dc21 98-45361 CIP ISBN 0-8476-9260-4 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8476-9261-3 Printed in the United States of America

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