Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Who is Margaret Morganroth Gullette?

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, is a cultural critic who calls herself an age critic and theorist. She is a prize-winning writer of nonfiction, an essayist, feminist, and activist. Her contributions to the field of cultural studies of age include four books, the latest of which is Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America. Other books of Gullette’s that have been influential include Aged by Culture, Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife; and Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel.