Authors: Lynne Segal
57
Roland Barthes,
Mourning Diary
, trans. Richard Howard, New York, Hill and Wang, 2010, p. 216. Further page references are given in the text.
58
Roland Barthes,
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.
59
Joan Didion,
The Year of Magical Thinking
, New York, Harper Perennial, 2006, p. 33. Further page references are given in the text.
60
Joyce Carol Oates,
A Widow’s Story: A Memoir
, London, Fourth Estate, 2011, p. 88.
61
Ibid., p. 416.
62
Meghan O’Rourke,
The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
, London, Virago, 2011, p. 13. Further page references are given in the text.
63
Adam Phillips, ‘Coming to Grief’, in
Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis
, London, Faber and Faber, 2002, p. 257.
64
Phillips, ‘Time Pieces’, p. 105.
65
Frosh,
Feelings
, p. 5.
66
Doty,
Dog Years
, p. 197.
67
Doty,
Heaven’s Coast
, p. ix.
68
Colm Tóibín, ‘One Minus One’,
The Empty Family
, London, Penguin, 2010, p. 1. Further page references are given in the text.
69
Tóibín, ‘The Empty Family’, in ibid., p. 35.
70
Walter Benjamin, ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ (1940), in Richard Kearney and Maria Rainwater, eds,
The Continental Philosophy Reader
, London, Routledge, 1996, pp. 215–23.
71
Patricia Meyer Spacks,
Gossip
, New York: Knopf, 1985.
72
Carolyn Heilbrun,
Writing a Woman’s Life
, New York, Ballantine Books, 1989, p. 131.
73
See, for instance, Margaret Atwood,
Second Works: Selected Critical Prose
, Toronto, House of Anansi Press, 1982, p. 254.
74
Kate Waldman, ‘Adrienne Rich on “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve” ’,
The Paris Review
, 2 March 2011.
75
Ruth Prince, ‘The Possibilities of an Engaged Art: An Interview with Adrienne Rich’,
Radcliffe Quarterly
(Fall 1998).
76
Waldman, ‘Adrienne Rich on “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve” ’.
77
See especially, Rich, ‘And Now’,
Dark Fields of the Republic
, p. 31.
78
Adrienne Rich interviewed by Michael Klein, ‘A Rich Life: Adrienne Rich on Poetry, Politics, and Personal Revelation’,
Boston Phoenix
, June 1999, available at
www.bostonphoenix.com
79
Adrienne Rich,
Arts of the Possible
, New York and London, Norton, 2001, p. 2.
80
Adrienne Rich, ‘Tendril’,
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
, New York, Norton, 2006, p.110.
81
Waldman, ‘Adrienne Rich on “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve” ’.
82
Adrienne Rich, excerpt from
Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995–1998
, New York and London, Norton, 1999, pp. 64–5.
83
Adrienne Rich,
Time’s Power: Poems, 1985–1988
, New York and London, Norton, 1989, p. 46.
84
Rich, ‘Turning’, in ibid., p. 54.
85
Adrienne Rich,
Of Woman Born
, New York, Norton, 1976, p. 284.
86
Adrienne Rich, ‘Contradictions: Tracking Poems’, in
Your Native Land. Your Life
, New York, Norton, 1986.
87
Ibid., p. 111.
88
Henneberg,
The Creative Crone
, p. 126; Adrienne Rich, ‘Collaborations’, in
The School Among the Ruins: Poems
,
2000–2004
, New York, Norton, 2004, p. 55.
89
Joanna Bourke, ‘Pain and Poetics: Forty Years of Adrienne Rich’, in
Virago is 40: A Celebration
, London, Virago, 2013 available at
www.virago.co.uk/virago-ebook
.
90
Hannah Arendt, ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’,
On Revolution
, New York, The Viking Press, 1963, Chapter 3.
91
Michael Klein, ‘A Rich Life: Adrienne Rich on Poetry, Politics, and Personal Revelation’,
Boston Phoenix
, June 1999, available at
www.poets.org
.
92
Adrienne Rich, ‘Standing at the InterReal’,
Real Change News
, 19 April 2001.
93
Adrienne Rich, quoted in Henneberg,
The Creative Crone
, p. 138.
94
Ibid., p. 139.
95
Carol Hanisch, ‘The Personal Is Political’, originally published in
Notes from the Second Year: Women’s Liberation
, 1970, available at
www.carolhanisch.org
.
96
Carol Hanisch, ‘Paying the Pied Piper: Did I Blow my Life?’, in Blau DuPlessis and Snitow, eds,
The Feminist Memoir Project
, pp. 202, 204.
97
Ibid., p. 205.
98
Rosalind Fraad Baxandall, ‘Catching the Fire’, in Blau DuPlessis and Snitow, eds,
The Feminist Memoir Project
, pp. 223–4.
99
Rosalind Fraad Baxandall, ‘The Populist Movement Reborn, At Last, In Occupy Wall Street’,
On The Issues Magazine
, 14 October 2011, available at
www.ontheissuesmagazine.com
.
100
Polly Toynbee, ‘In the City and Wall Street, Protest has Occupied the Mainstream’,
Guardian
, 17 October 2011, p. 33.
101
Margaretta Jolly, ‘Consenting Voices? Activist Life Stories and Complex Dissent’, in
Life Writing
, in press.
102
Molly Andrews,
Lifetimes of Commitment
, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 1. Future page references are given in the text.
103
Grace Paley, ‘How Come’, collected in
Just as I Thought
, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998, p. 285.
104
Grace Paley, ‘Two Ears, Three Lucks’, in
Grace Paley: The Collected Works
, New York, Noonday Press, 1994, p. xi.
105
Ibid.
106
Judith Butler, ‘Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life?’, paper delivered in Frankfurt, on accepting the Adorno Prize, 11 September 2012.
Chapter 6. Affirming Survival
1
David Cutler and David Wise, eds,
Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly
, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009.
2
See, for instance, on care in the UK, Denis Campbell and James Meikle, ‘Half of NHS Hospitals Failing to Care for Elderly’,
Guardian
, 13 October 2011.
3
Joan Bakewell, ‘We Need a Commissioner for Older People’,
Guardian
, 15 February 2012.
4
Yvonne Roberts, ‘One Hundred Not Out: Resilience and Active Ageing’,
Observer
, 20 February 2012.
5
Donna Bowater and Sarah Rainey, ‘NHS Cost-cutting Drives Disproportionately Impacting on Older People’,
Telegraph
, 9 January 2012.
6
Robyn Stone and Joshua Wiener,
Who Will Care for Us? Addressing the Long-Term Care Workforce Crisis
, Washington, The Urban Institute, 2001.
7
See, for instance, Charles Patmore, ‘Morale and Quality of Life Among Frail Older Users of Community Care: Key issues for success of community care’,
Quality in Ageing
3: 2 (2002), pp. 30–8; Alistair Hewison et al., ‘Delivering Gold Standards in End-of-Life Care in Care Homes: A question of teamwork?’,
Journal of Clinical Nursing
18: 12 (2009), pp. 1756–65; José-Luis Fernandez and Julien Forder, ‘Equity, Efficiency, and Financial Risk of Alternative Arrangements for Funding Long-Term Care Systems in an Ageing Society’,
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
26: 4 (2011), pp. 713–33.
8
Adam Smith, Fran Wasoff and Lynn Jamieson,
Solo Living Across the Adult Lifecourse
, Edinburgh, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2005, available at
www.crfr.ac.uk
.
9
Harriet Young and Emily Grundy,
Living Arrangements, Health and Well-being: A European Perspective
, available at
www.eurekalert.org
.
10
Elaine Eshbaugh, ‘Perceptions of Living Alone Among Older Adult Women’,
Journal of Community Health Nursing
25: 3 (2008), pp. 125–37.
11
S. Roseneil, ‘On Not Living with a Partner: Unpicking coupledom and cohabitation’,
Sociological Research Online
11: 3 (2006); Simon Duncan and Miranda Phillips, ‘People Who Live Apart Together (LATs) – How different are they?’,
The Sociological Review
58: 1 (2010), pp. 112–34.
12
John Haskey and Jane Lewis, ‘Living-Apart-Together in Britain: Context and meaning’,
International Journal of Law in Context
2:1 (2006), pp. 37–48.
13
Lauren Berlant,
Cruel Optimism
, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2011.
14
‘Precarity’ as a product of neo-liberal times has been explored by many, including the economist Guy Standing,
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
, London, Bloomsbury, 2011; and Judith Butler,
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
, London and New York, Verso, 2004.
15
Giles Fraser, ‘This Newspaper is Muddling my Mind’,
Guardian
, G2, 30 January 2012, p. 2.