ABSTRACT
This chapter, conceptualized as a coda, suggests that the focus on aging and spirituality in late American women’s spiritual literature challenges the disciplinary separation between academic feminism—typically imagined as secular—and religious feminism. This final chapter discusses the role of this canon in fourth-wave feminism and discusses other implications of the larger book such as the value of women’s writing and literature to the life review process. This chapter revisits the connection between body image and attachment theory research that informs women’s narratives of spiritual quest. This chapter ends by suggesting that the spiritual journeys penned by the writers in this chapter prompt us to explore the role of gerotranscendence in literature further.
