Margaret Morganroth Gullette
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The Importance of Declining to Decline 5 out of 5 stars.
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The idea that stages of life are "socially constructed" comes from two sources, Philippe Aries, Centuries of Childhood, and Margaret Morganroth Gullette's recent pathbreaking "deconstruction" of middle age: Declining to Decline. --Sandra Lee Bartky, Mother Time
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The image of midlife aging as decline is a destructive viewpoint constructed by our youth-loving culture. So says author Margaret Morganroth Gullette, who adds that our culture pressures us to shed youthful attributes and optimism about the future--constituting the "midlife crisis" of our time. Gullette proposes instead the concept of "age identity, " a complex and satisfying way of telling our narratives of being and becoming over the entire life course.
