A View from Life's Edge

Discovering What Really Matters with Older Women Across the Globe

Corinne G. Dempsey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
9781978844650 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Global Perspectives on Aging
Zusatzinfo	16 color figures
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781978844650 / 9781978844650
Zustand	Neuware