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Based on interviews with 45 women between the ages of 60 and 80, their narratives show the ways in which they have exercised their preferences and goals, whether with respect to health care, family relations, or to their definitions of mental health, aging, and self. These older women can be understood as “moral agents” acting within the parameters of race, gender, and class. Despite the social constraints they have faced, and the physical and emotional distress they have endured, these older women struggle to define, if not enact, a life of dignity and purpose. Of particular interest is how they spoke of their gendered self as younger women and how a few negotiated an authentic and valued self through their emotional distress as older women. This analysis is framed within various literatures including depression studies, feminist theory, aging research, and an intersectionality perspective.
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