While there are emerging areas of scholarship brining to light activisims around both aging and disability, these continue within largely separate spheres, with work on aging activisms focussing primarily on older women, and disability activisms on younger or middle-age adults. Analyses of the Raging Grannies have gained attention (Roy 2007, 2004; D. Sawchuk 2009; see also Chapters 4 and 6), as have the activisms of highly organized seniors’ interest groups with socioeconomic resources (Holladay and Coombs 2004)—what is sometimes termed “chequebook activism” (Williamson 1998). Yet, older women are activists in many other ways too, as this volume shows. They occupy diverse and multiple positions that include, intersect, and extend beyound the “grandmother role,” and they include women on the cusp of being labelled as old. Older women’s activisms that are on a more modest scale with smaller audiences (i.e., activisms that reach audiences in ways other than through participation in organizations, protests, rallies, and marches) are less recognized, perhaps being understood as (too) ordinary and thus “justifiably” glossed over. These diverse ways of working for change remain at the edges of activist scholarship.

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