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A question of age, women, ageing and the forever self [Kiosk], Jacinta Parsons

eng

Includes bibliographical references

contains biographical information

no index present

non fiction

A question of age

bibliography

Jacinta Parsons

women, ageing and the forever self [Kiosk]

WARNING: this is not a self-help book. Or a helpful book, necessarily. No one really needs 'help' with ageing. It will happen no matter what we do. Neither is it a book to guide you through these stages of ageing. This book will not ask you to love your lines. Or to post on social media that you feel privileged to age. This book is, instead, a howl of rage. Grappling with ageing is one of the most confronting elements of being a woman. When we become invisible, when we lose our sexual currency and the elasticity in our skin, when our bodies soften and change, when our perceived 'value' to society dramatically falls, when our notion of self-worth takes a radical shift. What do we do when our outside self doesn't match our inside self ? How do we adjust our perceptions of getting older? What does it mean to age as a woman? How do we adjust our thinking about being in the world? Being in midlife is a crucial reckoning with despair and hope. It is a time when you take stock, to look back and understand how you were made as a woman, and to look forward into the future to see how you might unmake yourself to live the life that perhaps you should be living. A Question of Age is incendiary, raging and raw, but also compassionate, insightful and powerfully energising. It is a book for every woman looking in the mirror thinking she no longer recognises herself. It is a book for our times