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Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s latest book, Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, won a prize from the American Psychological Association for contributions to women and aging, and an award for independent scholars from the Modern Language Association. Her work in progress is American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It the Next Time.
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Pause for Concern
In July 2002, the Women’s Heath Initiative (WHI) of the National Institutes of Health announced an abrupt end to its study of so-called Hormone “Replacement Therapy” (used to treat symptoms associated with menopause) because the treatment posed risks of cancer and heart disease. Since this was previously considered the gold standard of menopause science, almost […]
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The New Case for Marriage
Marriage is undeniably a changed institution, because wedlock is no longer obligatory on the old patriarchal terms. For women this has been a hard-won, historic victory. Divorce became easier starting with the first wave of feminism in the early 1900s, and the second wave, beginning in the 1960s, obtained for women more kinds of work, […]