A Question of Age. A Groundbreaking And Powerful Book About Women, Ageing And The Forever Self

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ABC Books AU
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 286 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing. Warning: this is not necessarily a helpful book. Or a self-help book. 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 doesnt match our inside self That old woman staring back at her reflection in the mirror doesnt 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 Is there a way to reconcile with ageing To age better Jacinta believes that midlife is a crucial reckoning with despair and hope. Midlife is the time when you are naked in the centre of the world and no-one notices or perhaps cares to look. Midlife demands that you find out who the hell you are, and what it all really means. 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. 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.

ISBN: 9780733342165