{"id":5254,"date":"2018-12-06T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2018-12-10T17:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:05:51","slug":"ending-ageism-or-how-not-to-shoot-old-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/12\/ending-ageism-or-how-not-to-shoot-old-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/strong> \u2013 Rutgers University Press, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not sure what ageism is, or you doubt that it does much harm, read this book. Author Margaret Morganroth Gullette examines this \u201cmost acceptable and unnoticed of the cruel prejudices.\u201d She explores ageism in its many manifestations, including the widely held (erroneous) assumptions that old age is inevitably a time of decline and decrepitude and that older people are a burden on society. Challenging our culture\u2019s relentless focus on youth\u2014which motivates many to try to hide their age\u2014she also describes other incarnations of ageism, including actual violence against older people. Ending Ageism<\/em> is densely packed with facts and insights and isn\u2019t always an easy read, but it\u2019s a passionate argument that has something important to say to people of all ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re not sure what ageism is, or you doubt that it does much harm, read this book.<\/p>\n

Read more Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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