A question of age women, ageing and the forever self Jacinta Parsons
- Bib ID:
- 8668644
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Parsons, Jacinta, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW ABC Books 2022
- ©2022
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 1.9MB
- ISBN:
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- 1460714490 (electronic bk)
- 9781460714492
- 9781460714492 (electronic bk)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of Access: Available online.
- Summary:
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A beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging. 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, when we lose that 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? That old woman staring back at her reflection in the mirror doesn't understand why she feels so young. So 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? What is our currency now? Jacinta believes that midlife is a crucial reckoning with despair and hope, a time when you are naked in the centre of the world and no-one notices or perhaps cares to look. Midlife 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.
Grappling with ageing is one of the most confronting elements of being a woman. When we become invisible, when we lose our sexual currency, when we lose that 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? That old woman staring back at her reflection in the mirror doesn't understand why she feels so young. So 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? What is our currency now? Jacinta Parsons believes that midlife is a crucial reckoning with despair and hope, a time when you are naked in the centre of the world and no one notices or perhaps cares to look. Midlife 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.
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.
- Full contents:
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- Prologue: chaos: before we began
- Fire: casting the woman
- Air: the wind cries
- Water: parched
- Earth: endings
- Epilogue: aether: new beginnings.
- Notes:
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- Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
- Title from title screen.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- General.
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- Subject:
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- Parson, Jacinta
- Parsons, Jacinta
- Age groups
- Ageing -- Physiological aspects
- Ageing -- Psychological aspects
- Ageing -- Social aspects
- Ageism
- Aging
- Aging -- Physiological aspects
- Aging -- Psychological aspects
- Aging -- Social aspects
- Longevity
- Mind and body
- Older people
- Older women
- Power (Philosophy)
- Self-acceptance in women
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Self-esteem in women
- Self-help publications
- Social status -- Age factors
- Women
- Aged and ageing
- Biography & Autobiography - Women
- Gender studies: women & girls
- Gender studies: women
- Health & Fitness - Women's Health
- Maturation & ageing
- Sex & sexuality, social aspects
- Social Science - Gender Studies
- Social Science - Women's Studies
- Women's health
- Australian
- Coping with ageing (Australia)
- Women's Health (Australia)
- Women's studies (Australia)
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- Copyright:
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