Out of time
the pleasures and perils of ageing
Pleasures and perils of ageing
Segal, Lynne
creator
author.
Showalter, Elaine
author of introduction, etc.
text
xxu
London ; New York
Verso
2013
monographic
eng
xviii, 331 pages ; 22 cm.
"A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging. How old am I? Don't ask, don't tell. As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new challenges and questions of politics and identity. In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Out of Time looks at many of the issues facing the aged--the war of the generations and baby-boomer bashing, the politics of desire, the diminished situation of the older woman, the space on the left for the presence and resistance of the old, the problems of dealing with loss and mortality, and how to find victory in survival"--
"In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Diana Athill and writers, poets and thinkers who have all written about the fears, liberation and experience of ageing, Out of Time looks at the perils and potential pleasures of growing old. It is a brave and powerful refusal to disappear, a rallying cry for the persistence of life after sixty, and a convincing rebuttal of the war of the generations and the end of baby-boomer bashing. Combining memoir, analysis and politics, Segal explores the problems of dealing with loss and how to find victory in survival. She raises the possibilities of continued desire and identity where often the aged are become forgotten and increasingly invisible"--
Machine generated contents note: 1.How Old Am I? -- 2.Generational Warfare -- 3.The Perils of Desire -- 4.The Ties That Bind -- 5.Flags of Resistance -- 6.Affirming Survival.
Lynne Segal ; with an introduction by Elaine Showalter.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-318) and index.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
Old age
Altern
Alterspsychologie
Society
Ã…lderdomen
Ã…ldrandet
LITERARY CRITICISM
Feminist
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Women's Studies
Aging
Intergenerational relations
Old age
Aging
Intergenerational relations
Alternative Press Collection
Aged
Ageing
Social values
Feminism
Generation gap
Body image
Sex behaviour
Psychology
305.26
9781781681398 (hardback)
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eng