History of Women in the Americas

Editorial Introduction

S. Jay Kleinberg, Marjorie Penn Lasky

The voices of older women, those aged sixty-five and above, remain largely unheard in contemporary society and culture, although this is changing.

Comparing Generations

Jody Woodruff, A Generational Difference: the Issue of Independence

Susan Segal, Alone

Deborah Shefler, Old War Limits and New World Opportunity

Carol Hoffman, One Generation Away And Yet…

Lenore Light, Fulfilling My Mother’s Wishes

Joyce Lombard, If We Could Have

Julie Freestone, We Had No Life Together

Overcoming Adversity

Jeanne Simonoff, Virginia Degner, Barbara Cantor

Jeanne Simonoff, A Daughter’s Task

Virginia Degner, A Second Chance

Barbara Cantor, Who have I been? Who do I want to be? Who am I now?

The Challenge and Lure of Creativity

Dorothy Bryant, Free to Write Poems

Ahni Robinson, Plant Your Feet

Bonnie Best, A New Perspective on Career and Retirement

Gayle Ann Weinstein, What is Sixty-Three?

Arlene Bernstein, Wow! Aka Women of Wisdom

Unpacking My Bags in Another Locale

Elizabeth Wholey, My Midlife Migration to Umbria

Lee Haworth, My Adventures on the Move

Shirley Nicholas, Worn Out Hip, Shoulder and Levis

Wendy Shipnuck, Embracing La Joie de Vie

Linda Jay, A New Chapter, at Seventy-Five!

E. Ruth Harder, Love Never Dies

Realising a Dream

Joan Reinhardt-Reiss, Barbara Lindemann

Joan Reinhardt-Reiss, Running Around!

Barbara Lindemann, Reflections on Retirement, Eight Years In

I Never Thought I'd Ever Do This

Annette Langer, Donne Davis, Kay Licina

Annette Langer, Cops and Robbers: The Senior Version

Donne Davis, "Even Grandmas Need a Sisterhood”

Kay Licina, Dragonboat Racing

My Amazing Mother

Leslie DeLuca Martin, Return to the Sea

Kaye Sykes Williams, My Mother

Sue Leonard, Ruth Hunter’s Story

Van Pham, A Short Story about a Little Vietnamese Lady

Virginia Howard Mullan, I Never Did Learn to Speak Afrikaans

Lifetime Stories

Bobbie Steinhart, Dionny Sunn, Bella Comelo, Nancy Connor, Heather Booth

Bobbie Steinhart, My Mother’s Daughter

Dionny Sunn, LOL (Little Old Lady)

Bella Comelo, Little Old Ladies Shouldn’t Do This

Nancy Connor, At Home in Bolivia

Heather Booth, A Life in the Movement

The Importance of Feminism

S. Jay Kleinberg, Sheila Goldmacher, Gloria J. Sandoval, Ruth Rosen

S. Jay Kleinberg, A Historian of a Certain Age

Sheila Goldmacher, Becoming Sheila

Gloria. J Sandoval, Not Your Grandmother’s Feminism

Ruth Rosen, How Feminism Changed My Life

My Mother, the Immigrant

Adriana Díaz, Susi Manners, Barbara F. Artson, Irene Sardanis

Adriana Díaz, Gifts From My Alien Grandmothers

Susi Manners, A Life My Mother Couldn’t Have

Barbara F. Artson, Dear Mom: I Finally Got It!

Irene Sardanis, My Strong Greek Roots