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Ending Ageism,
or How Not to Shoot Old People

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

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A bold and urgent exposé on the deepening crisis of ageism in contemporary society.

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Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars and the APA's Florence L. Denmark Award for Contributions to Women and Aging.

"An essential book for our times." 

— Lynne Segal, author of Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing


"In this bracing, wide-ranging new book by a pioneer of ageing studies, every page sparkles with fresh insight and burns with apt indignation at how the 'othering' of older people operates."

— Anne Karpf, author of How to Age


“This is a profoundly engaged, urgent work of the humanist imagination.”

— James Clifford, author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century


"Her latest and most innovative book."

— Gramma, Journal of Theory and Criticism

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"The Declaration of Grievances"
In English.
In French.
In German.
In Spanish.
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