A View from Life's Edge: Discovering What Really Matters with Older Women Across the Globe (Global Perspectives on Aging) - Tapa blanda

Dempsey, Corinne G.

 
9781978844643: A View from Life's Edge: Discovering What Really Matters with Older Women Across the Globe (Global Perspectives on Aging)
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ISBN 10: 1978844646 ISBN 13: 9781978844643
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2025

Sinopsis

In conversation with ninety-one women over the age of eighty in California, northern Iceland, south India, and among Sisters of St. Joseph in western New York, A View from Life’s Edge explores how, in the face of death, a sense of what really matters can clarify. Here we find a loosening of certitudes normally meant to keep life’s unwieldiness at bay, a chipping away at the illusion that any of us are captains of our own perfectly sailing ships. Reflecting on stories and opinions shared with her across the globe, Dempsey describes how a countercultural realism and an expanded sense of wonder repeatedly emerge in later life. These are offerings that call for our attention and yet face a double challenge. In as much as we strive to deny life’s finitude, we deny older adults their voices. A central conundrum of ageism is that we silence out of fear that which could quell our fears.

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CORINNE G. DEMPSEY is a professor and the chair of religious studies at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. Her previous works include Bridges between Worlds: Spirits and Spirit Work in Northern Iceland and Bringing the Sacred down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion.

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Rutgers University Press
Año de publicación
2025
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ISBN 10 
1978844646
ISBN 13 
9781978844643
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9781978844650: A View from Life's Edge: Discovering What Really Matters with Older Women Across the Globe (Global Perspectives on Aging)

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ISBN 10:  1978844654 ISBN 13:  9781978844650
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2025
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