Over the Hill: Reflections on Ageism Between Women

By Baba Copper and Daba Copper

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895943026
• ISBN13: 9780895943026
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Crossing Pr
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"

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It needs to be said!

Baba Copper is furious, and rightfully so, at the treatment society gives older women. They're seen as evil (as in mothers-in-law) or as useful servants (doting grandmothers), she claims. Older women are disempowered and she asks who benefits from this displacement of power."Ageism, not aging, oppresses us," Copper writes. "We are oppressed by other women and we oppress ourselves." Copper accuses the women's movement as well as professionals who provide services for the elderly. She says the effect of making decisions for them and "servicing" their needs renders old people powerless. Ageism can be defeated only by naming it, resisting it and redefining our understanding of it. Growing old must become accepted and celebrated instead of feared and rejected.