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Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing | Elaine Showalter, Lynne Segal

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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.

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Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing | Elaine Showalter, Lynne Segal

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It‘s unfair to say that the book is shallow because Segal‘s research is so extensive.But somehow I missed a certain depth or insight that go beyond you shouldn‘t be afraid of getting old.And although I loved how many authors&literary works she quotes I would have also loved to hear more about what Segal thinks and feels&how she copes with ageing.She does describe this in part but somehow I felt her voice gets lost in all the quotes.

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