Out of Time

ebook The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing

By Lynne Segal

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A leading feminist thinker reflects on her own life and the lives of other artists to explore the ups and downs of growing old.

This “thoughtful, reflective book on aging encourages people to keep dreaming, keep fighting, and perhaps most of all keep living(Pop Matters).

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, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal 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.
Brilliant, moving, and challenging, Out of Time is an urgent and necessary corrective to the assumptions and taboos that constrain the lives of the aged.
Out of Time