Commentary
Dutch ‘Sexy at 60’ Cover Photos Defy Ageism
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If the Netherlands can make 60-ish women look hot, can American media too? And should we applaud or boo?
Commentary
Ageist Health ‘Reforms’ Can Be Lethal
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Many women are angry with the House health bill for its abortion exclusion. But the plan also singles out poor people over 50–a group dominated by women–for legal and lethal bias, says Margaret Morganroth Gullette. And that’s not the only danger ahead.
Arts & Culture
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Plastic Surgery (Thankfully) Is Under the Knife
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Anti-ageism commentator Margaret Morganroth Gullette gives thanks for some good news about plastic surgery. Procedures are down, outcry is up and few American women ever considered getting themselves “done” anyway.
Arts & Culture
Anti-Aging Boom Preys on Jobless Fears at Midlife
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Middle-aged, worried about income security and feeling susceptible to “anti-aging” investments as a career aid? Margaret Morganroth Gullette probes midlife employment anxieties and the rise of botox, liposuction and face lifts.
Commentary
What’s the Matter With Nora Ephron’s Neck?
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Nora Ephron’s sour dislike of what she considers women’s bodily aging, one subject of her new bestseller, took up an hour on NPR last month. Margaret Morganroth Gullette responds from what she calls “the feminist country of later life.”
Commentary
Alarmist Demography Stalks Women Over 60
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Young people are being cued to fear and demean older women, through a public war on elders in general, writes Margaret Morganroth Gullette. The realization put a sour note on otherwise sweet plans for her 65th birthday.
Commentary
Older Women Were and Are Katrina’s Worst Casualty
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While the media did a good job focusing national concern on race and class in Katrina coverage, Margaret Morganroth Gullette decries a failure to focus on the main casualties of the disaster: elderly women.
Commentary
Feeling Old or Ugly? Take Another Look
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Can we rescue our bodies from advertising’s mean scrutiny? Before you shop for an on-sale bathing suit this summer, Margaret Morganroth Gullette recommends you take another look at yourself.
Commentary
Older Women Unite! Gray Is Gorgeous
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Ageism makes women turn the knife of sexism on themselves, says Margaret Morganroth Gullette. To show how rampant it is, she reviews a new documentary, “Still Doing It” and Dove’s positive-aging beauty campaign.