
Women, Power, and Aging
Friday, September 24, 2010 - Saturday, September 25, 2010
Age-group boundaries are blurring, and mid-lie and older women are defyng limiting role expectations and seizing opportunities open to them as a result of the gains made by the Women's Movement. Although images of women over 50 are not as prominent in the media as our generational numbers would suggest, the images that are available are more positive and more varied than every before. The empowerment, self-confidence, and enhanced freedom of self-definition that educated mid-life women have today has changed their experience of aging and improved their quality of life. But - is our freedom and are our expectations beginning to form new strictures about how "youthfully" mid-life women should behave and how "gracefully" we should age? And-how can we improve the well-being of mid-life and older women who have not shared the advantages that higher education has brought to others?
Agenda
* Presentation times are subject to change
Friday, September 24, 2010 | |
4:30 pm | Welcoming Remarks |
| Introductory Greetings |
Opening Session | |
4:45 pm | "Can't Have It All": Representations of Midlife Women in Popular Culture |
5:05 pm | The Benefits and Costs of Internet Use for Aging Women |
5:25 pm | "Defeating the Chronological Clock": News Coverage of Women Who Becomes Mothers in Midlife |
5:45 pm | Intergenerational Dialog About Sex: A New Direction for Exploration and Understanding |
6:05 pm | The Red Hat Society: When I am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple |
Saturday, September 25, 2010 | |
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8:00 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Opening Remarks Varda Muhlbauer, Netanya Academic College, Israel |
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8:45 am | Facing Up to Aging: Women's Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Procedures |
9:05 am | The Embodiment of Aging in an Era of Plastic Surgery: What Does It Mean to be Old Now? |
9:25 am | Is Age the New Status Symbol? |
9:45 am | Dispelling Myths about Older Women that Negatively Impact Independence, Health, and Sense of Self Worth |
10:05 am | Georgia O' Keeffe's Journey of the Spirit: An Artist in her Winter Years |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
Session II | |
10:45 am | Midlife Change and Psychological Development as the Foundation for Healthy Aging |
11:05 am | Risk, Uncertainty, and Gender Stereotypes in Health Care Decisions |
11:25 am | Aging Women in Jamaica: An Intersectional Perspective on Their Relationships and Health |
11:45 am | Developing a Healthy Stance Towards Perimenopausal and Menopausal Distress |
12:05 pm | High Levels of Depression and Depressive Symptoms in Less Educated Middle Aged Portuguese Women and the Possibility to Help Them with Brief Psychological Interventions |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
Session III | |
1:30 pm | "The Test of a Civilization Is the Way that It Cares for Its Helpless Members": Violence Against Older Women |
2:00 pm | Colonization and Culture Clash in Costa Rica |
Session IV | |
2:30 pm | Older Women as Leaders |
2:50 pm | Older Women as Mentors: Helping Other Women Navigate the Path to Leadership |
3:10 pm | Women, Power and Aging: An International and Multicultural Perspective |
3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
Session V | |
3:45 pm | Competing Discourses for Older Women: Agency / Leadership vs. Disengagement / Retirement |
4:05 pm | Researching Women and Retirement: Questions for Future Research |
4:25 pm | Growing Older in Portugal: Gender Issues in Physical Health and Well-Being |
4:45 pm | Retiring, But Not Shy |
5:15 pm | Concluding Remarks |
Speakers
Organizers
Joan C. Chrisler
Connecticut College
Florence Denmark
Pace University
Mercedes A McCormick
Pace University
Varda Muhlbauer
Netanya Academic College, Israel
Speakers
Kimberly B. Chapman
Connecticut College
Joan C. Chrisler
Connecticut College
Lizza Dauenhauer-Pendley
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Darlene DeFour
Hunter College
Florence L. Denmark
Pace University
Paula S. Derry
Private Practice in Baltimore
Joan Fimbel DiGiovanni
Artist
Sherry Dingman
Marist College
Irene Hanson Frieze
University of Pittsburgh
Mary Gergen
Penn State Brandywine
Jennifer A. Gorman
Connecticut College
Ishtar O. Govia
University of the West Indies
Maram Hallak
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Christine L. Hitchcock
University of British Columbia
Dawn M. Howerton
University of Tennessee
Ellyn Kaschak
San Jose State University
Dafna Lemish
Southern Illinois University
Hillary Lips
Radford University
Maria Otte
Marist College
Peter Marcus
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Mercedes A McCormick
Pace University
Maureen McHugh
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Toni Miller
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Varda Muhlbauer
Netanya Academic College, Israel
Josephine E. Olson
University of Pittsburgh
Michele Paludi
Union Graduate College
Maria Teresa Pereira da F. Pestana Goncalves Fagulha
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Katherine E. Serra
Connecticut College
Shirley Shalev
Harvard Medical School
Janet Sigal
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Maria Duarte Silva
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Judith A Sugar
School of Community Health Sciences
Leonore Tiefer
NYU School of Medicine
Cheryl B. Travis
University of Tennessee