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In Bird's call to arms, the proverbial ``little old lady in tennnis shoes'' will no longer be cartoon fodder, for ageism, insists the author, is as unacceptable as racism. Little Old Ladies (LOLs) are the fastest growing segment of the population: currently there are 31 million women age 55 and over, compared to 24 million men. In a polemic old women will find liberating, the jaunty 78-year-old Bird (Born Female) eschews euphemisms while presenting case histories intended to buttress her assertion that the natural place for the old is as functioning members of society. Working at salaried employment or as volunteers, starting their own businesses, returning to school or joining the Peace Corps, the elderly women met in these pages are not unusual, stresses Bird, but are among the legions who are creating new roles for themselves. Better educated, healthier, with more money and experiences than their mothers, today's old women have learnedand Bird also offers suggestionshow to adjust their lifestyles to compensate for physical decline. Like Betty Friedan's The Fountain of Age (1993), Bird's book is a consciousness-raiser. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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A feminist report--both optimistic and pragmatic--for single women getting older. Early to the barricades in the women's liberation movement of the 1960s, Bird, now near 80, aims to help define what older age is like. In the book's first section, she offers vignettes of women on their own coping successfully with aging, among them Eleanor Roosevelt, who served as US representative to the United Nations after FDR died, and less famous others who sailed around the world, joined the Peace Corps, became artists and writers. In Born Female (1968), Bird called them ``loophole women,'' that is, women who slip through or around the stereotypes--in this case, the attitude that old women (over 50, in some definitions) are ugly, weak, sick, slow, and unpleasant, a view that renders them invisible in the marketplace and the workplace. But today's generation of older women, as well as constituting a large percentage of the population, are also veterans of the battle for equality in the workplace; they will not settle for being denied control or herded into nursing homes and age-segregated communities in the final quarter-century of their lives. In her closing chapters, Bird offers some specific suggestions on improving the social climate: better public transportation; mainstreaming the elderly in schools, jobs, and on television; and reducing the privileges of age by, for instance, taxing Social Security income. She also presents some very personal ideas for keeping life manageable as joints and short-term memory deteriorate: exercise, the use of computers, and hanging up on telemarketers. The book's principle fault: Bird's occasionally over-rosy view of her sex (``Women give [to charity] to help others, not themselves'')--uplifting, but questionable. Good-humored and straight to the point; a challenge to stereotypes and a call to action. (Author tour)
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
The most rapidly growing population in the United States is single females over the age of 55. With this fact comes the need to dispel the standard myths about women and aging. This book does just that. Rather than attempting to define old, the author focuses on what aging is not. She cites multitudinous examples of ways that women adapt to and celebrate newfound freedom when no longer encumbered with family and spouse, creating new roles for themselves. We are encouraged to look beyond stereotypes to discover and embrace potentials. Bird, who is best known for her groundbreaking Born Female (1968) about women in the workforce, again provides thoughtful and insightful material to consider as a call to action. An important book in a subject area where not much is available and more is needed. Recommended for public libraries.-Kathleen L. Atwood, Pomfret Sch. Lib., Conn. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.