No Stopping Us Now
By
Gail Collins
Read by
Gail Collins,
Tanya Eby
Release:
10/22/2019
Release:
10/15/2019
Runtime:
13h 27m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“The Times columnist sets out to tell the ‘story of women and age in America’ by diving into the long tradition of older women’s political involvement. This is a deeply reported book…an eye-opening guide to our shifting attitudes about aging, particularly when it came to women.”
New York Times
A New York Times Pick of the Month
The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine).
"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad -- for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it -- and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not.
In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.
"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad -- for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it -- and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not.
In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.
Release:
2019-10-22
2019-10-15
Runtime:
Runtime:
13h 27m
13h 27m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
1.15 lb
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781478900771
9781478900764
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group
Praise