This Chair roCks a ManifesTo againsT ageisM Ashton Applewhite

290 Pages·2016·2.22 MB·English

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ISBN: 978-0-9969347-0-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015918594
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To the memory of Robert Neil Butler
—mentor, activist, physician, humanist—
who kicked the whole thing off
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“We contain all the ages we have ever been.”
—Annie Lamott
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ConTenTs
inTroduCTion 1
ChapTer 1 The Problem with Ageism 14
ChapTer 2 Our Ages, Ourselves – Identity 39
The fronT Lines
ChapTer 3 Forget Memory – the Older Brain 66
ChapTer 4 Health, Not Youth – the Older Body 93
ChapTer 5 No Expiration Date – Sex and Intimacy 122
ChapTer 6 Not Done Yet – the Workplace 149
ChapTer 7 Long Life is a Team Sport – the Independence Trap 174
ChapTer 8 The Bull Looks Different – the End of Life 209
ChapTer 9 Occupy Age! Beyond Ageism 230

Notes 252
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