Burack-Weiss The Lioness in Winter

Writing an Old Woman's Life
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-52533-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

A gerontological social worker--now in her seventies--draws on the late-life writing of noted women authors for emotional and practical guidance as she navigates aging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burack-Weiss, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Aging, I Wrote
1. Who Is That Old Woman?
2. What She Thinks About Some Times, Some Days, About Some Things
3. I Had Looked at Myself in the Full-Length Mirror
4. How We Are with Each Other
5. But Who Were They?
6. There Is a Grace in Death, There Is Life
7. My Map of a Place
8. Interested in Big Things and Happy in Small Ways
9. Just Show Up
10. Fierce with Reality
Conclusion: Aging, I Write
Afterword: Bright as Stars in the Heaven of My Mind
Annotated Readings
References

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Burack-Weiss is a social work practitioner, educator, and consultant who taught two generations of students at the Columbia School of Social Work and is now an associate faculty member in Columbia's Program of Narrative Medicine. She is also the author of The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life (Columbia, 2006).