Ageism and Gender

A sharp work by feminist writer Glosswitch exploring why women in their forties and beyond seem to enrage almost everyone. In an era of identity politics, middle-aged women are portrayed as bigoted, entitled, and morally inferior. Smith traces history to reveal why this specific form of misogyny is so rampant today. Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Awards.

Anne Allison’s ethnography follows post-bubble stagnation, irregular work, lonely death, and post-Fukushima life to examine what happens when stable family and male-breadwinner institutions unravel.

Thirty years after 'The Feminine Mystique,' Betty Friedan challenges another powerful societal myth: the 'mystique of age.' She attacks the 'medical model of decline' and argues that old age is not a pathology or loss, but a unique life stage full of vitality, growth, and self-realization.

In a near-future aging Japan, the state encourages citizens over seventy-five to end their lives. Chie Hayakawa examines ageism, withdrawn care, and the manufacture of voluntary choice.

An older sex worker in a Seoul park is drawn into poverty, illness, and requests for death. E J-yong returns aging from demographic abstraction to class, gender, care, and survival.