The Middlepause: on turning fifty - Couverture rigide

Benjamin, Marina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1925228525 ISBN 13 : 9781925228526

Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2016

Synopsis

In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience?

The Middlepause offers hope, and heart. Cutting through society s clamorous demands to work longer and stay young, it delivers a clear-eyed account of midlife s challenges. Spurred by her own brutal propulsion into menopause, Marina Benjamin weighs the losses, joys and opportunities of our middle years, taking inspiration from literature and philosophical example. She uncovers the secret misogynistic history of HRT, and tells us why a dose of Jung is better than a trip to the gym. Attending to ageing parents, the shock of bereavement, parenting a teenager, and her own health woes, she emerges into a new definition of herself as daughter, mother, citizen and woman.

Marina Benjamin suggests there s comfort and guidance in memory, milestones and margins, and offers an inspired and expanded vision of how to be middle-aged happily and harmoniously, without sentiment or delusion, making The Middlepause a companion, and a friend.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marina Benjamins is a writer and editor. Her most recent books are Rocket Dreams, shortlisted for the Eugene Emme Award, and Last Days in Babylon, longlisted for the Wingate Prize. As a journalist, she's written for most of the British broadsheets and served as arts editor at the New Statesman and deputy arts editor at the Evening Standard. She is currently a senior editor at the digital magazine Aeon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribe Publications
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925228525
• ISBN 13: 9781925228526
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible