Agewise with Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Co-sponsored by The Brookline Aging Collaborative (The Brookline Council on Aging, Goddard House in Brookline, Center Communities of Brookline-Hebrew Senior Life, and Rogerson Brookline Adult Day Health Program)

With, Author of Agewise, Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Let's face it: most of us fear growing older. We worry about losing our looks, our health, our jobs - and being supplanted in work and love by younger people. It may feel like the natural, inevitable consequence of the passing years. But what if it's not? In Agewise, renowned cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette reveals that much of what we dread about aging is actually the result of ageism - which we can, and should, battle as strongly as we do racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. On this evening, drawing on personal stories and provocative and under-reported evidence from the economic meltdown, Hurricane Katrina coverage, and biomedical research, Gullette probes the ageism that drives discontent with our bodies or accomplishments, and threatens our very selfhood.

Margaret Morganroth Gullette is the author of four books. Aged by Culture was chosen a Notable Book of the Year by The Christian Science Monitor and Declining to Decline won the Emily Toth award for best feminist book on American popular culture. Her essays are frequently cited as notable in The Best American Essays. Morganroth Gullette also contributes to The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Ms., The Nation, The American Prospect, and The American Scholar. A recipient of NEH, ACLS, and Bunting fellowships, she is a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.