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On Being an Aging Woman
 By Eleanor Foa Dienstag
How do you feel when someone says, “You don’t look your age”?”
How would you define ‘successful’ aging?
Is fighting external signs of aging healthy or not?
TTN’s New York book group, which focuses on literary fiction and non-fiction about “growing older,” tackled these questions after reading an academic article, “On Being An Aging Woman,” written by Martha B. Holstein, which appeared in a book, Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking. Charlotte Frank, co-founder of TTN, and a member of our book group, suggested we read and discuss the piece, since so many of the ideas and questions posed by the author are central to our lives.
What follows is my round-up of the discussion.
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Coalition of Grassroots Women's Organizations
A report from the United Nation's Women's program on their Somalia program. A group of members in New York City have been supporting a grassroots women's program in Somalia. Their interest in the program was sparked when UNIFEM head Noeleen Heyzer spoke to the chapter in 2006. Click on above link to read the most recent report from the Somali Coalition of Grassroots Women's Organizations. (For more information, contact TTN member Pamela Roderick, proderick@mindspring.com)
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