The Fountain of Age

Friedan, Betty

ISBN 10: 0671898531 / ISBN 13: 9780671898533

Published by Touchstone Books, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1993

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Signed & Inscribed By Author "For Tracy - Betty Friedan". Seller Inventory # 022617

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Fountain of Age

Publisher: Touchstone Books, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed & Inscribed By Author

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her own voyage of discovery, and that of others, into a different kind of aging.

Friedan found ordinary men and women, moving into their fifties, sixties, seventies, discovering extraordinary new possibilities of intimacy and purpose. In their surprising experiences, Friedan first glimpsed, then embraced, the idea that one can grow and evolve throughout life in a style that dramatically mitigates the expectation of decline and opens the way to a further dimension of "personhood."

The Fountain of Age suggests new possibilities for every one of us, all founded on a solid body of startling but little-known scientific evidence. It demolishes those myths that have constrained us for too long and offers compelling alternatives for living one's age as a unique, exuberant time of life, on its own authentic terms.

About the Author:

A founder of NOW and a vanguard leader of the Women's Movement, Betty Friedan was the author of The Feminine Mystique, It Changed My Life, The Second Stage, Beyond Gender, and The Fountain of Age. She taught at Northwestern University, Yale, Temple, Harvard, and USC. She died in 2006.