The Fountain Of Age

Description for THE FOUNTAIN OF AGE by Betty Friedan: In 1993, with THE FOUNTAIN OF AGE, Friedan changes forever the way all of us, men and women, think about ourselves as we grow older and the way society things about aging. Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, 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, which may prove even more liberating than THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, Betty Friedan charts her own voyage of discovery, and that of others, into a different kind of aging She finds 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'.