Out of Time (38 page)

56
  See Nancy Lutkehaus,
Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon
, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 73.

57
  Jane Miller,
Crazy Age
, London, Virago, 2010, p. 1.

58
  Helene Moglen, ‘Aging and Trans-aging: Trans-generational hauntings of the self’,
Studies in Gender and Sexuality
9:4 (2008), pp. 297–312.

59
  Sarah Pearlman, ‘Late Mid-life Astonishment: Disruptions to Identity and Self-esteem’, in Nancy D. Davis et al., eds,
Faces of Women and Aging
, Binghampton, The Haworth Press, 1993, pp. 1–12.

60
  Helene Moglen and Sheila Namir, ‘Leaving Analysis and Moving Beyond Pain’,
Women and Therapy
32: 2–3 (2009), pp. 223, 229.

61
  Penelope Lively, ‘A Life in Books: Penelope Lively’, interview with Penelope Lively by Sarah Crown,
Guardian
, 25 July 2009.

62
  Penelope Lively,
Moon Tiger
, London, Andre Deutsch, 1987, p. 2.

63
  Penelope Lively, ‘A Life in Books’.

64
  Diana Athill,
Somewhere Towards the End
, London, Granta, 2008, p. 179.

65
  Doris Lessing in
The Sunday Times
, Books Section, London, May 1992.

66
  Edward Said,
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
, London, Bloomsbury, 2006.

67
  Maev Kennedy et al., ‘Gaza Freedom Flotilla Carried World-renowned Names and Veteran Activists’,
Guardian
, 31 May 2010.

68
  Temma Kaplan,
Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements
, New York and London, Routledge, 1996.

69
  Anne Sexton, ‘Old’, available at
www.allpoetry.com
.

70
  Anca Cristofovici, ‘Touching Surfaces: Photography, Aging, and an Aesthetics of Change’, in Kathleen Woodward, ed.,
Figuring Age
, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 268–96.

71
  Alan Connor, ‘Dead Popular’, BBC News, 3 October 2006, available at
www.bbc.co.uk
. Thanks again to Sarah Benton, for so many things, but here specifically for drawing this survey to my attention.

72
  See, for example, Chapter 6 of Stephen Frosh’s
Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies
, London, Palgrave, 2010.

73
  Thompson et al.,
I Don’t Feel Old: The Experience of Later Life
, p. 228.

74
  Paul Taylor et al. ‘Growing Old in America: Expectations vs. Reality’, Pew Research Center, 29 June 2009, available at
www.pewsocialtrends.org
.

75
  A contemptuous insistence on the unmitigated horror of ageing is evident, for instance, in the latest scholarly polemic of Michigan Law professor, Bill Miller. See William Ian Miller,
Losing It
, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2011.

76
  ‘Five Minutes With: Juliet Stevenson’, available at
www.bbc.co.uk

Chapter 2. Generational Warfare

1
  David Willetts,
The Pinch: How the Baby-Boomers Took Their Children’s Future – and Why They Should Give It Back
, London, Atlantic Books, 2010.

2
  Margaret Morganroth Gullette,
Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America
, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2011, pp. 165, 182.

3
  Pat Thane, ‘The History of Aging and Old Age in “Western” Cultures’, in Thomas Cole, Ruth Ray and Robert Kastenbaum, eds,
A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging: What Does It Mean to Grow Old?
, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

4
  See, for example, Robert Garland,
The Greek Way of Life
, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1990; Sarah Pomeroy et al.
Ancient Greece: A Political
,
Social and Cultural History
, New York, Oxford University Press, 1999; Helen Small,
The Long Life
, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.

5
  Aristophanes, as quoted in Chris Gilleard, ‘Old Age in Ancient Greece: Narratives of desire, narratives of disgust’,
Journal of Aging Studies
21: 1 (2007), p. 85; see also Barry Strauss,
Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War
, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993.

6
  Thomas Falkner,
The Poetics of Old Age in Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy
, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

7
  William Shakespeare,
As You Like It
, Act II, Scene VII, lines 165–6.

8
  See, for example, many of the essays in Pat Thane, ed.,
The Long History of Old Age
, London, Thames & Hudson, 2005.

9
  See Christa Grössinger,
Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art
, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1997, p. 136.

10
  Brian Levack,
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
, New York and London: Longman, 1995, p. 129.

11
  Deborah Willis,
Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England
, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1995, p. 65.

12
  Robin Briggs,
Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
, London, Harper Collins, 1996, pp. 260–1.

13
  Susan Hayward,
Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts
, London, Taylor and Francis, 2006, p. 331; see also Richard Dyer,
Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society
, London, British Film Institute, 1986; Christine Gledhill, ed.,
Stardom: Industry of Desire
, London, Routledge, 1991.

14
  Thomas Cole,
The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America
, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 234.

15
  See Gullette,
Aged by Culture
, pp. 44–6.

16
  Mark Hunter,
‘Work
,
Work
,
Work
,
Work!’
,
Modern Maturity
, May–June 1999.

17
  Mark Hunter, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, ‘ “XERS” VS. “BOOMERS” ’,
American Scholar
, 22 June 2000.

18
  Suneel Ratan, ‘Generational Tension in the Office: Why Busters Hate Boomers.’
Fortune
4 October 1993, pp. 56–70; Michael Grunwald, ‘Trial by Media’,
Boston Globe
, 10 October 1994, p. 31. Bruce Farris, ‘All They Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun’,
Fresco Bee
, 9 March 1995, p. 4.

19
  Gilbert Dennis,
American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality
, Los Angeles: Sage, 2002; Leonard Beeghley,
The Structure of Social Stratification in the United States
, Boston: Pearson, Allyn & Bacon; Daniel Weinberg, ‘A Brief Look at Postwar US Income Inequality’,
Household Economic Studies: Current Population Reports
, available at
www.census.gov
.

20
  Brendan O’Neill, ‘Baby boom … bust’, BBC News magazine, 17 August 2006, available at
www.bbc.co.uk
.

21
  Anatole Kaletsky, ‘Crisis? Blame the baby-boomers, not the bankers’, July 2010, available at
www.business.timesonline.co.uk
.

22
  Neil Boorman, ‘Did the over-45s Ruin Life for the Rest of Us?’, BBC News magazine, 29 March 2010, available at
www.news.bbc.co.uk
.

23
  Philip Larkin, ‘This Be The Verse’, available at
www.artofeurope.com
.

24
  Phillip Inman, ‘Baby Boomers are Britain’s Secret Millionaires’,
Guardian
, 28 February 2011; Christina Odone, ‘Baby Boomers Made Sacrifice a Dirty Word – but the young are fighting back’, 18 March 2010, available at
blogs.telegraph.co.uk
.

25
  Robin Blackburn, ‘A Global Pension Plan’,
New Left Review
47 September–October 2007.

26
  Willetts,
The Pinch
.

27
  Neil Boorman,
It’s All Their Fault
, London, The Friday Project, 2010, product description on Amazon website.

28
  Francis Beckett,
What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?: How the Children of the Sixties Lived the Dream and Failed the Future
, London, Biteback Publishing, 2010.

29
  See Sheila Rowbotham’s
Promise of A Dream
, London, Penguin, 2000.

30
  Beckett,
What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?
, p. 6.

31
  Will Hutton, ‘The Baby Boomers and the Price of Personal Freedom’,
Observer
, 22 August 2010.

32
  These comments were all gathered together in response to Hutton’s commentary, in ‘Talkin’ ’bout my Generation: Politicians and writers share their memories of growing up as part the baby boomer generation’,
Observer
, 22 August 2010.

33
  Marina Warner, quoted in Ian Sinclair,
Hackney
,
that Red Rose Empire: A Confidential Report
, London, Penguin, pp. 280, 278.

34
  Ibid., p. 288.

35
  Walter Benjamin, ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’, in
Illuminations
, New York, Schocken Books, 1969, p. 255.

36
  Pat Thane, ‘The “Scandal” of Women’s Pensions in Britain: How did it come about?’, March 2006, available at
www.historyandpolicy.org
.

37
  Beatrix Campbell, ‘Don’t Blame the Baby Boomers’,
Observer
, 21 February 2010.