Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Prologue: Our Bodies Not Ourselves Chapter 1: The Aging Body From Past to Present PART I THE PRIVATE BODY Chapter 2: The Edifice: From Skeleton to Skin Chapter 3: Brain and Sense: The Pains and Pleasures of the Flesh PART II: THE PUBLIC BODY Chapter 4: The Body Observed: From Head to Toe Chapter 5: The Body in Outline: Unbearable Weight PART III: THE BODY WITH OTHERS Chapter 6: The Hall of Mirrors: Aging in Sexual and Social Relationships Chapter 7: Epilogue: Our Bodies Ourselves

About the Author

Kathryn A. Kirigin is Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas, USA. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, among others.

Carol A.B. Warren is Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas, USA. She is the author of ten books, most recently The Lotos Eaters: Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community (Routledge, 2016), and nearly fifty articles, papers and reviews.

Reviews

In this book "from the field," Kathryn Kirigin and Carol Warren give us an unstinting look at older women’s experience with their bodies—in all the particulars. The authors raise provocative questions: Are we or are we not our bodies? How much intervention is appropriate to keep up appearances? Readers will find fresh reflections on how to conduct oneself across time, and the advice to "carry on…inside and despite our bodies."
David J. Ekerdt, Professor of Sociology and Gerontology, University of Kansas, and President of the Gerontological Society of AmericaThe book is a real contribution, an extraordinary book that amasses important historical and contemporary information not easily found. The authors deserve applause for their scholarship, their fearlessness and personal vulnerability, and their unflinching attention to the truth of aging bodies and minds. It should be valuable for courses in human sexualities, gerontology, nursing, social work, sociology and gender studies.
Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington—Seattle