Margaret Morganroth Gullette, an internationally known cultural critic of age, is the author of "Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People"; "Agewise," winner of an Eric Hoffer Book Award; and "Declining to Decline" (best feminist book on American popular culture, from the American Culture Association/ Popular Culture Association). She is a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis, and lectures, writes and blogs frequently for national and international audiences.