No Stopping Us Now by Gail Collins - ISBN: 9780316286503
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American women, aging, and the battle to redefine their prime.

No Stopping Us Now

The Adventures of Older Women in American History

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    432 pages

  • Release Date

    23 February 2021

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Summary

“You’re not getting older, you’re getting better,” or so promised the famous 1970’s ad–for women’s hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it–and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not.

In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the c…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780316286503
ISBN-10:0316286508
Author:Gail Collins
Publisher:Little, Brown & Company
Imprint:Back Bay Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:23 February 2021
Weight:400g
Dimensions:34mm x 138mm x 208mm
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No Stopping Us Now by Gail Collins - ISBN: 9780316286503
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Critics Review

Praise for When Everything Changed:

“Splendid…Collins is a masterful storyteller.”–Glenn C. Altschuler, NPR.com


Did feminism fail? Gail Collins’s smart, thorough, often droll and extremely readable account of women’s recent history in America not only answers this question brilliantly, but also poses new ones about the past and the present.”–Amy Bloom, The New York Times Book Review
“A deeply researched, entertaining book … [Collins] brings a reporter’s eye to the facts and anecdotes, and never without humor.”–New York Times
“A lively and well-researched compendium… . This enjoyable and informative historical survey will delight Collins’s fans and bring in some new ones.”–Publishers Weekly
“A lively celebration of women’s potential.”–Kirkus
“An eye-opening guide to our shifting attitudes about aging.”–New York Times
“Collins … is a cheerful companion through the decades.”–Washington Post
“Collins continues her exploration of women’s history with this breezy look at the position of older women in American society. This is a diverting and certainly interesting and valuable read.”–Booklist
“Compulsively readable.”–Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
“Exhilarating, accessible, and inspiring.”–Katha Pollitt, Slate.com
“Gail Collins has an unflaggingly intelligent conversational style that gives this book a personal and authoritative tone all at once.”–Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books
“Gail Collins is such a delicious writer, it’s easy to forget the scope of her scholarship in this remarkable look at women’s progress.”–People
“Known for the punch of her columns, Collins sprinkles conversational asides throughout to keep this hike through the decades spry… . Former New Jersey Rep. Millicent Fenwick … is just one of the many fascinating, unstoppable exemplars Collins manages to squeeze into this tightly laced historical corset.”–Heller McAlpin, NPR
“Riveting and remarkably thorough in its account of this tumultuous period.”–Rasha Madkour, Los Angeles Times

About The Author

Gail Collins

Gail Collins is a columnist for the New York Times. From 2001-2007 she was editorial page editor of the paper–the first woman to have held that position.

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