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Learning to be old: gender, culture, and aging

Learning to be old: gender, culture, and aging

Margaret Cruikshank

Edited by J. Dianne Garner and Susan O. Mercer. New York: Haworth, 1989. McDonald, Kim. "Sport Scientists Gain New Respect as They Shift Focus to the Elderly." Chronicle of Higher Education. (September 25, 1998), A15-A16. McFadden ...
Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

Margaret Cruikshank

“A Sociological Perspective on Women and Aging as the Millennium Turns.” In Women As They Age, 2nd ed. Edited by J. Dianne Garner and Susan O. Mercer. New York: Haworth, 2001. ———. “Women and Aging: A Sociological Perspective.
Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

Margaret Cruikshank

John, Robert, Patrice Blanchard and Catherine Hagan Hennessy. "Hidden Lives: Aging and Contemporary American Indian Women." In Handbook on Women and Aging. Edited by Jean M. Coyle. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997. John ...
Fierce with Reality: Literature on Aging

Fierce with Reality: Literature on Aging

Margaret Cruikshank

As for the old woman, she brought some friends to live with her in the house, and the dãmi did not return there again. This tale was recorded by an Englishwoman, Lady Eleanor Stevens, who lived in Iraq. The teller is identified as Lili, a Baghdad Christian woman. Lady Stevens published Folk-Tales of Iraq in London in 1931. ANNIE AT 109, TOM DOMEK her mate into check for the hundredth time, she revels. At home, over anisette, and a game of chess, my wife recalls Old Annie, who, ...
The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

Hildegard Kuester

1n 1981, Patricia Morley published the monograph Margaret Laurence9 in Twayne's World Authors series; with a few additions, it reappeared on the market ten years later under the title Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Home.
Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis

Here begins Justin Sterling's centuries-spanning story, as told by bestselling author Margaret Weis and her chosen band of dark fantasists, in the world's first major illustrated novel.
Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Margaret Homans

Homans considers versions of Victoria in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur

Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur

Margaret Somerville

When author Margaret Somerville met her in 1991 she was still painting and writing, and continued to produce a monthly play for the Lunch Hour Theatre well into her eighties.In Wildflowering the conversations between Kathleen and Margaret ...
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Judy Blume

It’s Me Margaret is very special.” —Amy Poehler quoted on Vulture.com “Generations of teenage girls have grown up reading the tales of teenage angst told by beloved author Judy Blume.” —Mashable.com Margaret Simon, almost twelve ...
The Ice Age

The Ice Age

Margaret Drabble

Set against a backdrop of the Cold War and the political turmoil that led England to Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Age tells the story of three people desperately seeking firm ground amidst chaos with Margaret Drabble’s characteristically ...
Perspective on the purpose of American education

Perspective on the purpose of American education

Ralph Winfred Tyler

... Jr. Mr. Jack Collins Mr. Joseph V. Colmie Ms. Judith Seigler Connell Ms. Carol Jean Cooper Ms. Patricia Leslie Corbat Ms. Elizabeth A. Cornell Ms. Connie Marie Cowardin Mrs. Maude Rhodes Cox Ms. Nanette W. Cruikshank Ms. Pamela ...
Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery, Revised and ...

Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery, Revised and ...

Margaret M. Furtado

... on Lower-BMI Gastric Banding Procedures Margaret M. Furtado, Margaret Furtado, Lynette Schultz, Joseph Ewing. About the Authors lVI&I'g&II'€T F1lI'T&d0 , M.S., R.D., L.D.N., R.Y.T., is a registered and licensed dietitian with over twenty ...
Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence, John Lennox, Ruth Panofsky, Adele Wiseman. from the Grade 13 English curriculum at Lakefield District Secondary School pending a decision by the Textbook Review Committee of the Peterborough Board of Education.
Margaret Dow Gebby Diaries

Margaret Dow Gebby Diaries

Margaret Dow Gebby

Margaret Dow Gebby recorded in her eleven diaries daily work and leisure activities as well as income and expenses on a grain and livestock farm near Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Regency Radical: Selected Writings of William Hone

Regency Radical: Selected Writings of William Hone

William Hone

Illustrated with over sixty woodcuts by Hone's frequent collaborator, George Cruikshank, this book reveals the writer's commitment to such issues as parliamentary reform, religious liberty, reform of asylums, and freedom of the press, while ...
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady

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Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady is the biography of Margaret Thatcher, a former British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990.
One woman's Charlottetown: diaries of Margaret Gray Lord, ...

One woman's Charlottetown: diaries of Margaret Gray Lord, ...

Margaret Gray Lord

This report is based on three diaries of Margaret Pennefather Stukely Gray, daughter of Father of Confederation John Hamilton Gray and wife of Artemas Lord, a prominent businessman and federal civil servant.
How Happy We Shall Be

How Happy We Shall Be

Margaret Thornton

A heartwarming World War Two saga for fans of Kate Flynn, Annie Murray and Margaret Dickinson.
Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical ...

Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical ...

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Julia Skelly See also Art, Representations of Alcohol in; Art, Representations of Drugs in References Bates, William. George Cruikshank: The Artist, the Humourist, and the Man. London: Houlston and Sons, 1878. Berkley Fletcher, Holly.
Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side ...

Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side ...

Piers Dudgeon

What Every Woman Knows 216, 222n When AMan's Single 92, 119n Who's Here154 Barrie, Margaret (Barrie's mother) see Ogilvy, Margaret Barrie, Margaret 'Maggie' (Barrie's sister)59, 172,211 Barrie, Mary(Barrie's sister) 58 Barrie, Mary ...
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

Margaret Thornton

A heartwarming World War Two saga for fans of Kate Flynn, Annie Murray and Margaret Dickinson.
Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel

Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel

Margaret Truman

Margaret Truman thrills again with Experiment in Murder, the riveting next installment in her Capital Crimes series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture

Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture

Jo-Ann Morgan

"Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the ...
Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS ...

Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS ...

David A. Mindell

29, 1862. 39. Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling, introduction to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling, eds., Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World 1700–1920 (Baltimore, 1996), xiii; Margaret Creighton, Rites ...
Early Tudor translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More ...

Early Tudor translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More ...

William Atkinson

This volume presents the texts of three Englishwomen remarkable both for writing and publishing their work during the first half of the sixteenth century.
Ceramics Before Farming: The Dispersal of Pottery Among ...

Ceramics Before Farming: The Dispersal of Pottery Among ...

Peter Jordan

Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages Paula J. Turner, Roman Coins from India Margaret M. Roxan, Roman Military Diplomas 1985 to 1993 Margaret M. Roxan, Roman Military Diplomas 1978 to 1984 Margaret M. Roxan, Roman Military ...
The Sacrifice

The Sacrifice

Margaret Iggulden

Petra, the ancient city of rose-coloured rock 'half as old as time', feels strangely familiar to Margaret and Barbara as they explore it. But why? Is it possible to discover in the present... and, if so, can it be changed?
Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact

Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact

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A collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir

Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir

Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave.

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