"Much of the time our society stereotypes and dismisses old women
as ridiculous, troublesome, irrelevant, and (worst of all) boring.
These memoirs contradict the assumptions. The women who wrote them
have experienced solid, hearty lives, with a characteristic
vitality enduring into old age." -- from the Foreword by Liz
Carpenter
Women who were sixty or older at the turn of the twenty-first
century have lived through some of recent history's most momentous
moments-- and yet these women often believe that their personal
lives and stories are insignificant, not worthy of being recorded
for future generations. To change that perception and capture some
of these life stories before they are lost, the Story Circle
Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write
about their lives, developed the Older Women's Legacy (OWL) Circle
Memoir Workshops. During the first two years of the project
(1998-2000), nearly 500 older women participated in workshops that
offered them the opportunity and encouragement to reflect on and
create written records of their lives.
With Courage and Common Sense presents an extensive selection
of memoirs from the OWL Circle project. Organized thematically,
they describe women's experiences of identity, place, work, family
life, love and marriage, loss and healing, adventures great and
small, major historical events, and legacies to keep and pass
along. Taken as a whole, the memoirs chronicle far-reaching changes
in the ways that women participated in the world during the
twentieth century. They show how women learned to surmount
obstacles, to courageously make the most of the opportunities that
came their way, and to move quietly andwisely beyond the limits
that were imposed upon them.
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