Not Too Old for That: How Women Are Changing the Story of Aging (Hardcover)

Helps women break through the tired and hurtful stereotypes of aging to better reflect who they are how they live and what they want as they age. Who hasn t heard the stereotypes about women of a certain age? That s the age when women become invisible irrelevant undesirable asexual unhinged dried-up hormonal messes. It s when women quickly slide into fragility and become forgetful passive weak feeble debilitated disabled dependent and depressed. Or so the story goes. Not only are those outdated narratives sexist and ageist they are also damaging to women s physical emotional financial romantic and sexual health. It s time to change them. In Not Too Old for That Vicki Larson helps change the narrative about being a woman at midlife and older. She questions what we ve been told aging would be like and encourages us to instead ask ourselves what do we want it to be like and how can we get there? The key is to be curious open-minded and intentional about the ways we are becoming our future selves.We have an opportunity to create new narratives of aging as a woman ones that value women at all stages of life not just youth and it starts with us. Once the stereotypes that have held women back are broken down women can move past them and rather than feel helpless as the years add up they can discover and tap into just how much agency they have. Not only will this book help to create a less-ageist less-sexist more-inclusive future it will release our daughters and all young women from a similar future.