Time of Our Lives
Celebrating Older Women
$38.93
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2023
Summary
Time of Our Lives presents the extraordinary lives of ordinary women in their seventies, eighties and nineties, challenging the stereotype of the helpless old woman who is nothing more than a burden.
The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse backgrounds, all born before 1946 and all of whom have achieved great things in older age. From Mig Dann, an 80-year-old artist who worked for David Bowie and completed a PhD …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922633729 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922633720 |
| Author: | Maggie Kirkman |
| Publisher: | Monash University Publishing |
| Imprint: | Monash University Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 235mm x 154mm |
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‘A must-read for all those women who refuse to go gentle into that good night’
– Maxine McKewAbout The Author
Maggie Kirkman
Dr Maggie Kirkman is a psychologist and a Senior Research Fellow in Global and Women’s Health at Monash University. Before gaining a PhD at age fifty, she taught kindergarten children, children with hearing impairments and children with profound disabilities. She has worked at La Trobe and Melbourne universities, and her research includes women’s experiences of infertility, abortion, donor-assisted conception, breast cancer and ageing well. Maggie is the author of My Sister’s Child (with Linda Kirkman, Penguin) and the editor of Sperm Wars (with Heather Grace Jones, ABC Books). She appears regularly in the Australian media, including on ABC Radio and in The Conversation. In 2019, Maggie was recognised as an inaugural Champion for Women by Women’s Health Victoria.
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