At the 2020 International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry conference in Tampa, Florida, a small group of colleagues and I were chatting about our experience over the course of the weekend. One of the women commented that she’d been taken aback by something she’d heard earlier in the day. Apparently, a service worker at a restaurant had commented that she “looked good for her age.” This produced a wide smattering of responses from the group—I recounted being asked for my photo identification earlier in the weekend when ordering a drink at a restaurant and being told, “I certainly wouldn’t have guessed your age!” while another indicated that she’d recently been offered a “compliment” from a colleague about being “quite fit for your age.” As we continued to recount these stories, something became painfully clear in our discussion: all of these comments were ageist, and we experienced them quite frequently....
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Spring 2021
Book Review|
April 01 2021
Review: Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation, edited by Lori West Peterson and Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger
Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation
. Edited by Lori West Peterson and Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger, Lanham, MD
: Rowan & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
. 2019
, 238 pp., $95.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-4985-8410-4, $90.00 (eBook) ISBN: 978-1-4985-8411-1
Michaela D.E. Meyer
Michaela D.E. Meyer
Christopher Newport University, mmeyer@cnu.edu
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Journal of Autoethnography (2021) 2 (2): 274–276.
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Michaela D.E. Meyer; Review: Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation, edited by Lori West Peterson and Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger. Journal of Autoethnography 1 April 2021; 2 (2): 274–276. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.2.274
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