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Senexa. The goddess of age studies, whose motto is "End Ageism," is represented as Michelangelo's Libyan Sybil. Her strong shoulders and muscular arms hold a huge open book. 

 

Her skin color and silvery gray hair were conferred by photographers Laura Brody and Fran Forman. 

 

The book that Senexa reads contains the wisdom of ages, collected from the guardians of the life course. The crone-goddess is interrupting her instruction of the children behind her, who reverently discuss anti-ageist lore, in order to cast a deprecating look at the perpetrators of ageism, invisible beneath her feet. Her teachings are dedicated to the agewise. 

Essays

  • “Women Studying Women: Kikuyus and Classmates” (review of Symposium II), Radcliffe Quarterly (September 1982): 9-10.

Article.

Reunion. Feminism. Age autobiography. Progress. 

  • “Unclassified Affections.” Massachusetts Review XXIII #4 (Winter 1982). 

Fiction.

Friendship. Marriage.

  • “Going Home.” Massachusetts Review XXII, #3 (Autumn 1981). 

Fiction. 

Father. Dying. Family memoir. Autobiography.

  • “Liberating Dick and Jane,” Radcliffe Quarterly 65 #4 (December 1979): 13-15.

Article.

Children’s literature. Reading. 

Review-essay. 

Virginia Woolf’s Diaries. Psychology. Midlife. Women’s liberation.

  •  “The Condition of the Short Story.” New England Review I # 4  (1979): 521-531.

Essay in literary/cultural quarterly. 

Short fiction. Literary criticism.

  • “Djuna Barnes and Mme. von Bartmann's Daughter,” New Boston Review 3 # 4 (April 1978): 5.

Essay-review.

Djuna Barnes.

  • “Bringing It All Back Home” (Review of the film Coming Home), New Boston Review 4 #1 (September 1977): 29.

Essay-review.

Film criticism. War. Gender. Vietnam. Disability. Sexuality. 

  • The Lost Bellybutton. Chapel Hill, NC: Lollipop Power Press, 1976. Consortium Book. 

Children’s book.

Psychology. Adventure. Girls. 

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