Margaret Cruikshank to Dr. Silver, 17 February 1962

Professional correspondenc

Free-speech policy needs revising

My article is prompted by the display of anti-gay material by a Christian sect in the Memorial Union March 24 and 25. Over the tables were two large banners asking, What is Wrong with Homosexuality? and, What is Wrong with Fornication

The Picaresque Movement and its influence on literary, political, and social reforms.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Autograph of Margaret Cruikshank in "Lesbian Studies: Present and Future"

The title page and an autograph by the author, Margaret Cruikshank, in their work ""Lesbian Studies: Present and Future"" with an inscription.For Susan from Peg Cruiskshank Oct 198

Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is \u27successful aging\u27 our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to \u27grow old gracefully\u27? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual orientation have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena, yet aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses. This book helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Feminist scholar Margaret Cruikshank looks at a variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging, including fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/1180/thumbnail.jp

Review of 'The Ages of Life: Living and Aging in Conflict?' by Ulla Kriebernegg and Roberta Maierhofer

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Learning To Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

Margaret Cruikshank’s Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives to the ways aging is usually understood in both popular culture and mainstream gerontology. Learning to Be Old does not propose the ideas of “successful aging” or “productive aging,” but more the idea of “learning” how to age. Featuring new research and analysis, the third edition of Learning to be Old demonstrates, more thoroughly than the previous editions, that aging is socially constructed. Among texts on aging the book is unique in its clear focus on the differences in aging for women and men, as well as for people in different socioeconomic groups. Cruikshank is able to put aging in a broad context that not only focuses on how aging affects women but men, as well. Key updates in the third edition include changes in the health care system, changes in how long older Americans are working especially given the impact of the recession, and new material on the brain and mind-body interconnections. Cruikshank impressively challenges conventional ideas about aging in this third edition of Learning to be Old.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/1060/thumbnail.jp

Fierce With Reality: an Anthology of Literature on Aging

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