Aging Angry: Making Peace with Rage [Hardcover]

InAging Angry: Making Peace with Rage, Amanda Smith Barusch argues that now, more than ever, it is time for older adults to turn toward anger rather than denying or avoiding it. By taking anger seriously, we can neutralize its destructive potential and harness its energy and wisdom for personal and social change. Barusch forcefully demonstrates that anger--and even rage--can be transformative.Fear of anger can ultimately be as destructive as expressed rage, fomenting social isolation, injustice, and misunderstanding. InAging Angry: Making Peace with Rage, Amanda Smith Barusch argues that now, more than ever, it is time for older adults to turn toward anger rather than denying or avoiding it. By taking anger seriously, we can neutralize its destructive potential and harness its energy and wisdom for personal and social change.Barusch draws upon the experiences of hundreds of older adults and a wealth of literary and academic sources to empower readers with new understanding of anger's sources, dynamics, and possibilities. Topics range from anger and race in the United States to mass violence committed by older adults to aged activists who have changed our world.In rich and insightful prose, accompanied throughout by powerful case studies,Aging Angryforcefully demonstrates that anger--and even rage--can be transformative.Preface: Who's Angry Now?Chapter 1: Aging While AngryChapter 2: Speaking of AngerChapter 3: Anger through the AgesChapter 4: Angry BodiesChapter 5: Women Cry / Men RageChapter 6: Race & Anger in Later LifeChapter 7: Elders on Social MediaChapter 8: Lessons on Anger & LoveChapter 9: Aging, Angry, and Armed to the TeethChapter 10: Taming the RageChapter 11: Embracing the AngerChapter 12: Changing the WorldConclusion: The Eye of the HeartAppendicesNotesAmanda Smith Barusch, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and the University of Utah. She is known forl“^