The Middlepause: on turning fifty - Rilegato

Marina Benjamin

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1925228525 ISBN 13: 9781925228526

Casa editrice: Scribe UK, 2016

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione

'Women do a lot of things to mark turning fifty. Go to a resort! Have a bang-up party! Far, far better: read The Middlepause. --Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman

This tender and thoughtful book calls for an invisible revolution in our attitudes to women s ageing. In a deeply personal meditation Benjamin places body knowledge and luck alongside grieving and family history; intimate reflection with literary exemplar; communion with ghosts sadly close to the painful real. The Middlepause is a wise, lucid and beautiful plea for more candid discussion of the time-wrought transformations of the female body. --Gail Jones, author of A Guide to Berlin

'A candid and beautifully written wrinkles and all meditation on the middle years with all their dilemmas and challenges ... [Marina Benjamin] seeks a new vision of how to be middle-aged happily and harmoniously without sentiment or delusion.' --Caroline Sanderson , The Bookseller

L'autore

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.

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• Editore: Scribe UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1925228525
• ISBN 13: 9781925228526
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240