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Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to offer a vision of what can be embraced.
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出版社周刊评论
This inspiring study of aging from the author of The Feminine Mystique was a six-week PW bestseller. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
A book that explodes the myths of aging--just as, 30 years ago, Friedan exploded the mirage of the contented housewife. American women's lives changed forever with The Feminine Mystique--and this challenging exploration of aging may do the same for the skyrocketing population of men and women who have hit 60 and can anticipate 20 or 30 more years of living. The problem, Friedan says, is that although only about five percent of people over 65 are in nursing homes and fewer than ten percent ever will be, age is seen--by media, doctors, politicians, academics, even activists on behalf of the aging--as a ``problem,'' a ``plight,'' a time of rapidly decreasing physical and mental faculties. Older people buy into that picture, straining to stay youthful or removing themselves from active participation in society, often by retiring to ``leisure'' communities, whether or not leisure is what they crave. Friedan produces research studies and anecdotal evidence that the ``Third Age'' (after growing up and then generating a family and/or career) may be the age of true creativity--even of evolution. She examines the tragedies of productive lives cut short by early retirement; the new myths of menopause; early preparation for death; and anxious overprotectiveness by family, friends, professionals, and government. In fact, the many resourceful older men and women cited here have found ways not only to sustain rewarding lives but to grow intellectually, emotionally, and even physically (Friedan discusses her own Outward Bound experience at age 60). That America's youth-oriented culture puts its elders on a social ice floe at a time when wisdom, experience, and honed critical faculties are most needed indicates, suggests Friedan, a nation with its priorities sadly skewed. Lengthy and slow to build, but, still, a far-sighted and far- reaching critique that may move the over-60s to reestablish the ``priorities of evolving life...and new visions for our stagnant society.'' (First serial rights to Time and Good Housekeeping)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
"I have never felt so free," Friedan declares at the close of this thoroughly researched but deeply personal study, which challenges the pervasive "age mystique" every bit as profoundly as her landmark Feminine Mystique (1963) demolished postwar conventional wisdom about women's lives and hopes. Reluctant to identify with the concept of "old" experienced by most people in our youth-obsessed culture, Friedan audited Harvard courses and served on study groups and commissions, trekked into the wilderness with Outward Bound, and for this study interviewed hundreds of individuals who are confounding mainstream gerontologists' expectations by finding new roles, sources of satisfaction and growth, and vitality in the years past 65. Friedan's perspective is ultimately evolutionary: she insists that humanity's extended life span "has to have some function in the survival of the whole community stretching into the future"; she calls for rethinking traditional notions of youth and age, life and death; and she demands, for the benefit of all, an end to the ghettoization of the old. Friedan's themes are familiar, but because she views the long post-reproductive period as opportunity rather than problem, adventure rather than curse, she establishes a solid intellectual and emotional foundation for enormously powerful social and attitudinal changes. Despite the lukewarm response to The Second Stage (1981), Friedan remains highly visible: serial rights to The Fountain of Age have been purchased by Time and Good Housekeeping, and the work is a Book-of-the-Month-Club alternate selection and a Quality Paperback Book Club main selection. ~--Mary Carroll
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Friedan tackles the subject of aging with the same candor evident in her earlier critiques of women's roles (e.g., Feminine Mystique , 1963). She offers no quick fixes on how to grow old gracefully in a society that worships youth. Instead, she confronts the reality of aging. This proves to be less frightening and damaging than the denial and cosmetic fix-ups to prolong youth in a culture that places no value on age and provides no role for its elders. Make waves, make new roles, and reclaim old roles, admonishes Friedan. She interweaves the newest research on aging and psychology with her own personal experience of coming to terms with aging. She does not give into stereotypes but instead suggests vital alternatives that acknowledge the need to act one's age in a meaningful way. A true pioneer, she brings to this important topic her wisdom, strength, and courage gained from years of living. This program has something for listeners of all ages. Highly recommended.-- Nancy Paul, Brandon P.L., Wis. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.