Look me in the eye : old women, aging, and ageism
- Title
- Look me in the eye : old women, aging, and ageism
- Description
- This book focusses on women and ageing via several essays previously published in journals such as ‘Broomstick’ and ‘Sinister Wisdom’. Barbara Macdonald (1913-2000) and Cynthia Rich (1933-), the sister of poet Adrienne Rich, who were a couple and active in the women’s rights movement, write from different stages in the ageing process. Macdonald uses her introduction to reflect on the repressive environment she encountered growing up, which forced lesbians to become “other”, an otherness she now equates with being an older woman. The copy displayed here is the 1985 reprint edition. The first edition, and likely the one seized during the raids, was published by Spinsters Ink, a feminist press founded in 1979 in New York by Judith McDaniel and Maureen Brady.
- Creator
- Barbara Macdonald (1913-2000)
- Cynthia Rich (1933-)
- Location
- London
- Publisher
- The Women's Press
- Date
- 1985
- Tags
- Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
- Aging
- Feminism
- Lesbian Feminism
- Lesbian Relationships
- Lesbians
- Rights
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