Books

American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2024.  

Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2017; 2019.

The Big Move (co-author). Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2016.

Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2011; 2013.

Aged by Culture. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004, 2005.

Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife. Charlottesville: U of Virginia Press, 1997.

“Afterword,” Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird. NY: Feminist Press of CUNY, 1989. Introduction by Elaine Showalter.  

Safe at Last in the Middle Years. The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1988; reprinted 1990. Paperback: Open Road Media, 2016.

The Art and Craft of Teaching. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.