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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Burack-Weiss, Ann, author.     Subjects     Old age in literature.     Older women in literature.     Aging in literature.     Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.     Life change events in literature.     Life cycle, Human, in literature.     Life change events in old age.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Burack-Weiss, Ann, author.       by title:      The lioness in winte...         MARC Display

The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life / Ann Burack-Weiss. by Burack-Weiss, Ann, author. New York : Columbia University Press, c2015. Subjects Old age in literature.   Older women in literature.   Aging in literature.   Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.   Life change events in literature.   Life cycle, Human, in literature.   Life change events in old age. ISBN:  9780231151849 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0231151845 (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  xx, 185 pages ; 22 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Ann Burack-Weiss, a gerontologist with more than forty years of experience, analyzes and engages with the writings of a dozen well-known authors for insights into old age. Featured are Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, M.F.K Fisher, Doris Grumbach, Carolyn Heilburn, Doris Lessing, Florida Scott-Maxwell, May Sarton, Anne Roiphe, and Alexis Kate Shulman, among others, all of whom wrote about essential issues in old age including physical changes and disability, living alone, reflecting on and revaluing the past, generativity, public life, and the changing roles of family and friends. Burack-Weiss frames the reading of these texts in relevant theory and research including an introduction that discusses narrative theory and developmental, gerontological, and feminist perspectives on the older woman" --   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 809.93354 Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 809.93354 Burack-Weiss Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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