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age studies
ageism
aging
anthropology
Author_Corinne G. Dempsey
California
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Corinne G Dempsey
countercultural realism
cultural studies
death
dying
end of life care
end-of-life
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geriatric
gerontology
global perspectives
global perspectives on aging
Iceland
india
life
life's edge
new york
northern Iceland
old
older
religion
rutgers
rutgers university
rutgers university press
sisters of st. joseph
social science
south India
st. joseph
western new york
women
women's studies
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- ISBN 9781978844643
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In conversation with ninety-one women over the age of eighty in California, northern Iceland, south India, and among Sisters of St. Joseph in western New York, A View from Life’s Edge explores how, in the face of death, a sense of what really matters can clarify. Here we find a loosening of certitudes normally meant to keep life’s unwieldiness at bay, a chipping away at the illusion that any of us are captains of our own perfectly sailing ships. Reflecting on stories and opinions shared with her across the globe, Dempsey describes how a countercultural realism and an expanded sense of wonder repeatedly emerge in later life. These are offerings that call for our attention and yet face a double challenge. In as much as we strive to deny life’s finitude, we deny older adults their voices. A central conundrum of ageism is that we silence out of fear that which could quell our fears.
CORINNE G. DEMPSEY is a professor and the chair of religious studies at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. Her previous works include Bridges between Worlds: Spirits and Spirit Work in Northern Iceland and Bringing the Sacred down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion.
