Books of Aged women
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Be an Outrageous Older Woman: A RASP
By Ruth Harriet JacobsBe an Outrageous Older Woman: A RASP
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Women who Take Care: Choosing to Live with Wisdom, Grace, and Power After Fifty-five
By Lou Dunn DiekemperWhen I was born , the doctor said , “ Harry , " — he was talking to my father— " Harry , I have to give my attention to Marie , or she's not going to make it . ” And he sort of tossed me into a rocking chair and said , “ The baby's not ...
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Women & Aging: A Guide to the Literature
By Helen Rippier Wheeler... G. D. P. Gutterman , E. M. 1158 , 1159 Heisel , M. A. Guy , D. J. 1852 Heislein , D. M. Heller , K. Hagestad , G. O. 409 , 1371 Hemmings , S. Hagstad , A. 285 Henderson , J. Haignere , L. 860 Hendry , M. D. Hailstorks , R. J. 190 ...
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The Parts
By Keith RidgwayAn acidic, comic de-mythologising portrait of modern Dublin.
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The New Ourselves, Growing Older: Women Aging with Knowledge and Power
By Paula Brown Doress-Worters, Diana Laskin SiegalOld Minkler , Meredith , and Kathleen M. Roe . GrandWestbury , NY : Feminist Press , 1982. Collection mothers as Caregivers : Raising Children of the of articles on black women , especially lesbian Crack Cocaine Epidemic .
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Mrs Pepperpot Stories
By Alf PrøysenLife isn't always easy for Mrs Pepperpot.
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The Hairy Toe: A Traditional American Tale
An old woman finds a hairy toe - and she soon wishes she hadn't, in this spine-tickling traditional tale.
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Dove on the Waters
By Maurice ShadboltWhat does the decorous lawyer Walter Dove, inventively sailing the globe solo, have in common with the lonely spinster Rose Lightfoot, busy with her paintbrush beside the canals of Venice?
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The View from 70: Women's Recollections and Reflections
By Ina LoewenbergThe View from 70: Women's Recollections and Reflections
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Highland Grace
By Gary E. ParkerFrom critically acclaimed author Parker, a Christy Award finalist, comes this historical fiction set in a time of great upheaval in North Carolina just after World War II.
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Catching Light: Poems
By kathryn stripling byerPoems Kathryn Stripling Byer. Praise for Catching Light " The light that Kathryn Stripling Byer's Catching Light is suf- fused with is the light of the past . Grandmothers and ghosts move through these strong yet delicate lyrics as the ...
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Tell Me a Riddle & Yonnondio
By Tillie OlsenThis collection was widely hailed as a work of genius, in which the voices of ordinary Americans, black and white, male and female, were given their own rhythms and forms of expression.
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Someone to Lend a Helping Hand: Women Growing Old in Rural America
By Dena ShenkThis timely and topical book examines the expectations, beliefs and values of thirty rural Minnesota women as they grow old in rural America.