No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History Audiobook (Free)

‘Gail Collins inspires females to accept aging and look at it with a fresh sense of wish’ within this energetic, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in the us, with the beloved NY Times columnist (Parade Publication)

‘You’re not getting older, you are getting better,’ roughly guaranteed the famous 1970’s ad–for women’s hair dye. Americans possess always had an elaborate relationship with maturing: accept it, refuse it, defer it–and females have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not really..Read More about Zero Stopping Us Now: The Escapades of Older Women in American History

In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed NY Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age can be an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth on the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if ‘civil and under fifty many years of age group’), to some generations later, when they had been quietly retired to elderdom after they had approved the optimum age for duplication, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking in the home is often celebrated, to the 1st woman nominee for chief executive, American attitudes towards age have been a shifting target. Gail Collins gives women reason to anticipate the very best of their fantastic years.