Books written by Margaret Cruikshank

  • Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
    Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

    Milder forms of depression are easily dismissed as natural to aging (Moore, Prescription, 201). Old women are especially at risk for having treatable symptoms attributed to aging itself. Alcohol and tobacco interact with prescription ...

  • Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
    Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

    Gibson, Diane. “Broken Down by Age and Gender: The 'Problem of Older Women' Redefined.” Gender and Society 10, no. 4 (1996): 433–48. Gibson, Rose Campbell. “Reconceptualizing Retirement for Black Americans.” In Worlds of Difference: ...

  • Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
    Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

    I thank my women's studies colleagues , especially Ann Schonberger and Mazie Hough of the University of Maine , for their support . I am indebted to my editor at Rowman & Littlefield ...

  • Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
    Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

    ... and informal care for disabled or old lesbians is common both in rural areas and in cities (Barker, 65–66). Studies of aging sexual minorities have become more numerous and detailed since 2004. Although they are illuminating, ...

  • Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
    Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

    In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives to the ways aging is usually understood in both popular culture and mainstream gerontology.

  • The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement
    The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement

    Karen wrote Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home, a book for which movie rights have been sold.14 Since the case clearly involved issues for the disabled as well as for gay people, Karen was invited to speak to many lawyers, ...

  • Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
    Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

    In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives to the ways aging is usually understood in both popular culture and mainstream gerontology.

  • The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement
    The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement

    Gay and lesbian liberation as a sexual freedom movement, as a political movement, and as a movement of ideas - historical roots, legal issues and links with other movements. The author emphasises the role of women.