Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional GuideNan Bauer Maglin, Alice Radosh Rutgers University Press, 2003 - 378 sivua Women Confronting Retirement showcases the voices of thirty-eight women from a wide range of professions, ages, and life situations as they confront the need to redefine who they are when they leave the workplace behind them. The women of the Baby Boom generation were the first to enter the professional world in large numbers, and the first to encounter the hazards of retirement. The contributors urge us to reach for new approaches to this major stage of life, to find new self-images, to balance meaningful work and creative play, and to work for the new public policies that support enhanced opportunities for retirement. Many of these women were involved in the key activist movements of the sixties and seventies, and their work often has been an extension of their social commitment. Defining themselves through their careers, they have challenged traditional models at every stage of their lives and are now being challenged by their own negative stereotypes about retirement. The stories in this book compellingly chronicle the fears and hopes of women who have only begun to think about retirement, those who are in the process of retiring, some who have been retired for many years, and a few who have decided that retirement is not for them. They address issues such as identity, aging, creativity, family, and community. Unlike traditional "how-to" books, Women Confronting Retirement makes clear how individual the choices are, how there are no right and wrong answers to the many questions this uncharted stage of life poses for women of the Baby Boom generation, and those who follow. These women help us to explore the next steps with the same courage and questioning attitudes that they have brought to every aspect of their lives before they reached retirement age. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Thinking about Retirement | 31 |
One More Stretch of the Road | 33 |
Lessons from My Mother about Work and Retirement | 40 |
Exploring the NoWomans Land of Old Age or How May Sartons Counterstory Prepares Me for Retirement | 53 |
Excerpts from a Journal | 66 |
Retiring into Intensity Experiencing Deep Play | 79 |
On My Own Terms | 89 |
Afterthoughts | 227 |
From Work Projects to Play Projects | 237 |
Onward in Retirement | 245 |
Doc Finds Happiness in Arts Community | 256 |
Does an Activist Ever Retire? | 262 |
A Focus Group on Retirement | 275 |
A Librarian Retires | 289 |
Harvesting the Threads of Commitment | 297 |
Reflections on the Eve of Retirement | 97 |
Making a Difference | 108 |
Women on the Edge of Retiring | 117 |
A Guide to Lesbian Retirement | 126 |
Baby Boom Women The Generation of Firsts | 150 |
Stages of Retirement | 159 |
Notes from the First Year | 161 |
My Family and the Movement | 177 |
Every Day a Sunday? Reflections on a First Year of Retirement | 187 |
Creating a Self in Context | 201 |
Which the First Was Made | 216 |
Retirement without Regrets | 305 |
Carpe DiemFollow Your Passion | 311 |
N R EVER 1VETIRE | 317 |
RetirementThe Final Question Mark? | 319 |
Progressions | 326 |
From Rags to Rags | 340 |
Change of Life | 348 |
Never Retire | 357 |
Selected Bibliography | 367 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 373 |
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