Doing Sixty And Seventy
by Gloria Steinem /
2006 / English / EPUB
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Doing Sixty and Seventy By Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem became a
spokesperson for issues about aging quite accidentally after
declaring to a reporter on the occasion of her fortieth birthday,
"This is what forty looks like. We've been lying for so long, who
would know?" Because of this casual comment about her age and about
the collective societal pressure to lie about our age she received
an avalanche of thanks and support from other women facing age
discrimination. This caused her to realize the far reaching
dimensions of age oppression. In her inspiring essay, Doing Sixty,
Steinem shares her views on age stereotyping, the unexpected
liberation that comes with growing older, and defines what she
perceives as the fact that women become more radical as they age.
The essay also sheds light on the forces that shaped her life and
for readers who have only heard bits and pieces about her the essay
offers a primer on her bold and logical theories. In the essay,
Steinem describes turning fifty as "leaving a much-loved and
familiar country" and turning sixty "as arriving at the border of a
new one" in which she looked forward to "trading moderation for
excess, defiance for openness, and planning for the unknown." In
the Preface, Doing Seventy, written when Steinem is just past
seventy and twelve years after the essay was first published,
Steinem explains the development of her precious sense of mortality
and time. Elders Academy Press is proud to have published Ms.
Steinem's enlightening and thought-provoking essay thus allowing it
to appear for the first time as an independent volume.
Doing Sixty and Seventy By Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem became a
spokesperson for issues about aging quite accidentally after
declaring to a reporter on the occasion of her fortieth birthday,
"This is what forty looks like. We've been lying for so long, who
would know?" Because of this casual comment about her age and about
the collective societal pressure to lie about our age she received
an avalanche of thanks and support from other women facing age
discrimination. This caused her to realize the far reaching
dimensions of age oppression. In her inspiring essay, Doing Sixty,
Steinem shares her views on age stereotyping, the unexpected
liberation that comes with growing older, and defines what she
perceives as the fact that women become more radical as they age.
The essay also sheds light on the forces that shaped her life and
for readers who have only heard bits and pieces about her the essay
offers a primer on her bold and logical theories. In the essay,
Steinem describes turning fifty as "leaving a much-loved and
familiar country" and turning sixty "as arriving at the border of a
new one" in which she looked forward to "trading moderation for
excess, defiance for openness, and planning for the unknown." In
the Preface, Doing Seventy, written when Steinem is just past
seventy and twelve years after the essay was first published,
Steinem explains the development of her precious sense of mortality
and time. Elders Academy Press is proud to have published Ms.
Steinem's enlightening and thought-provoking essay thus allowing it
to appear for the first time as an independent volume.