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Margaret Urban Walker, ed. Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics

Margaret Urban Walker, ed. Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics P1: FNN Journal of Aging and Identity [jai] HS078-06 April 14, 2000 22:21 Style file version Nov. 19th, 1999 Journal of Aging and Identity, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2000 Review Essay Margaret Urban Walker, ed. Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics Merry G. Perry How are the experiences of aging women connected to and influenced by contemporary philosophical and cultural beliefs about the experience of growing old and dying? What ethical and moral assumptions about aging affect how we think about and evaluate the lives of those in the aging population? How might a feminist reenvisioning and reevaluation of the aging process and the lives of older members of our society transform the way we view the physical, emotional, and social experience of aging? These and related questions are the focus of Margaret Urban Walker’s Mother Time, a book that makes an important and timely contri- bution to critical discourse on aging. Scholars and students of this rapidly growing field will find a wealth of information in this edited collection. Three key assumptions inform the work in this book: that aging should not simply be equated with “being sick or dying,” that women’s “life experiences in aging” are influenced http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Aging and Identity Springer Journals

Margaret Urban Walker, ed. Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics

Perry, Merry
Journal of Aging and Identity , Volume 5 (1) – Oct 6, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2000 by Human Sciences Press, Inc.
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Social Sciences; Sociology, general
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1087-3732
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1573-3491
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10.1023/A:1009549615941
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P1: FNN Journal of Aging and Identity [jai] HS078-06 April 14, 2000 22:21 Style file version Nov. 19th, 1999 Journal of Aging and Identity, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2000 Review Essay Margaret Urban Walker, ed. Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics Merry G. Perry How are the experiences of aging women connected to and influenced by contemporary philosophical and cultural beliefs about the experience of growing old and dying? What ethical and moral assumptions about aging affect how we think about and evaluate the lives of those in the aging population? How might a feminist reenvisioning and reevaluation of the aging process and the lives of older members of our society transform the way we view the physical, emotional, and social experience of aging? These and related questions are the focus of Margaret Urban Walker’s Mother Time, a book that makes an important and timely contri- bution to critical discourse on aging. Scholars and students of this rapidly growing field will find a wealth of information in this edited collection. Three key assumptions inform the work in this book: that aging should not simply be equated with “being sick or dying,” that women’s “life experiences in aging” are influenced

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Published: Oct 6, 2004

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