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Books

American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It

American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It

U of Chicago Press, 2024.

Ending Ageism, 
or How Not to Shoot Old People

Ending Ageism,
or How Not to Shoot Old People

Rutgers UP, 2017; 2019.

The Big Move

The Big Move

Co-author. Afterword. "Annotated Bibliography of Further Reading: I. Fiction"

Indiana University Press, 2016.

Agewise: Fighting 
the New Ageism in America

Agewise: Fighting
the New Ageism in America

U of Chicago Press, 2011; 2013.

Aged by Culture

Aged by Culture

U of Chicago Press, 2004, 2005.

Declining to Decline: 
Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife

Declining to Decline:
Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife

U of Virginia Press, 1997.

"Afterword"

"Afterword"

From Daughters of Danaus 

by Mona Caird. 

Feminist Press of CUNY, 1989.

Safe at Last in the Middle Years: 
The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel

Safe at Last in the Middle Years:
The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel

U of California Press, 1988; 

reprinted 1990.

Paperback: Open Road Media, 2016.

The Art and Craft of Teaching

The Art and Craft of Teaching

Harvard University Press, 1986.

All 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.

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