Nan Bauer-Maglin is the academic director of the City University of New York Baccalaureate Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY Alice Radosh has taught psychology at Brooklyn College, directed the New York City Mayor's Office of Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Services, and served as senior program officer at the Academy for Educational Development. She is now retired
Preface
p. ix
Introduction
p. 1
Thinking about Retirement
p. 31
One More Stretch of the Road
p. 33
The Old Brown Bag and the Used Tinfoil: Lessons from My Mother about Work and Retirement
p. 40
Exploring the No-Woman's Land of Old Age; or, How May Sarton's Counterstory Prepares Me for Retirement
p. 53
Clearing a Path to Retirement: Excerpts from a Journal
p. 66
Retiring into Intensity, Experiencing "Deep Play"
p. 79
On My Own Terms
p. 89
Cut Me Some Slack: Reflections on the Eve of Retirement
p. 97
Making a Difference
p. 108
Rethinking Ambition: Women on the Edge of Retiring
p. 117
Circling the Wagons: A Guide to Lesbian Retirement
p. 126
Baby Boom Women: The Generation of Firsts
p. 150
Stages of Retirement
p. 159
Notes from the First Year
p. 161
Time to Look Back: My Family and the Movement
p. 177
Every Day a Sunday? Reflections on a First Year of Retirement
p. 187
Creating a Self in Context
p. 201
"The Last of Life for Which the First Was Made"
p. 216
Afterthoughts
p. 227
A Mennonite Retirement: From Work Projects to Play Projects
p. 237
Rewriting the Books: Onward in Retirement
p. 245
Doc Finds Happiness in Arts Community
p. 256
Does an Activist Ever Retire?
p. 262
Discovering What Matters: A Focus Group on Retirement
p. 275
Still in Circulation: A Librarian Retires
p. 289
Harvesting the Threads of Commitment
p. 297
Retirement without Regrets
p. 305
Carpe Diem/Follow Your Passion
p. 311
Never Retire
p. 317
Retirement--The Final Question Mark?
p. 319
Progressions
p. 326
Social Insecurity: A Cautionary Tale
p. 336
Retirement: From Rags to Rags
p. 340
Change of Life
p. 348
Never Retire
p. 357
Selected Bibliography
p. 367
About the Editors and Contributors
p. 373
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