Title: No Stopping Us Now Pdf The Adventures of Older Women in American History
"This is a deeply reported book, and Collins turns up some fascinating details. . . . The book is an eye-opening guide to our shifting attitudes about aging."―New York Times"A lively celebration of women's potential."―Kirkus"Collins continues her exploration of women's history with this breezy look at the position of older women in American society. This is a diverting and certainly interesting and valuable read."―Booklist"A lively and well-researched compendium. . . . This enjoyable and informative historical survey will delight Collins's fans and bring in some new ones."―Publishers WeeklyPraise for When Everything Changed:"Splendid...Collins is a masterful storyteller."―Glenn C. Altschuler, NPR.com"Did feminism fail? Gail Collins's smart, thorough, often droll and extremely readable account of women's recent history in America not only answers this question brilliantly, but also poses new ones about the past and the present."―Amy Bloom, The New York Times Book Review "Riveting and remarkably thorough in its account of this tumultuous period."―Rasha Madkour, Los Angeles Times"Compulsively readable."―Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News"Gail Collins has an unflaggingly intelligent conversational style that gives this book a personal and authoritative tone all at once."―Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books"Exhilarating, accessible, and inspiring."―Katha Pollitt, Slate.com Gail Collins is a columnist for the New York Times. From 2001-2007 she was editorial page editor of the paper--the first woman to have held that position.
"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.
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