TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parsons,Jacinta
TI  - A question of age: women, ageing and the forever self 
SN  - 9780733342165
U1  - 155.67 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - ABC Books
KW  - Parsons, Jacinta.
KW  - Aging
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Women
KW  - Women's studies (Australia)
KW  - Women's Health (Australia)
KW  - Coping with ageing (Australia)
KW  - Self-help publications
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
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