Margaret Morganroth Gullette is a cultural critic and nonfiction writer, an internationally known age critic, an essayist, feminist, and activist. Her latest book is Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America.
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Margaret
Morganroth Gullette is a cultural critic and prize-winning writer of
nonfiction, an internationally known age critic, an essayist, feminist,
and activist. Her latest book,
Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America, is called "important social criticism from a prominent scholar" by Publishers Weekly.
Aged by Culture (also University of Chicago Press), was chosen a noteworthy book of the year by the
Christian Science Monitor Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife won the Emily Toth award in 1998 for the best feminist book on American popular culture. Her first book in age studies is
Safe at Last in the Middle Years.
Her
essay, "The Contagion of Euphoria," won the Daniel Singer Millennial
Prize in 2008. Other essays, frequently cited as notable in
Best American Essays, have appeared in many literary quarterlies, including
The Kenyon Review and
Yale Review. Gullette has also written for the
The New York Times Magazine,
The Nation,
Ms.,
The Boston Globe,
The Chicago Tribune,
www.womensenews.org,
www.alternet.org,
www.salon.com,
American Prospect, and
American Scholar.
She has been the recipient of NEH, ACLS, and Bunting Fellowships. Quotations from her books appear in
The Quotable Woman: The First Five Thousand Years. She is a member of PEN-America and a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.
For reprint permission, write to
mgullette@msn.com.
