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Loading... The Middlepause: On Life After Youthby Marina Benjamin
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Ich weiß nicht, ein sehr seltsames Buch. Mindestens in der ersten Hälfte jammert die Autorin nervtötend über das Älterwerden. Das wäre alles nicht so schlimm, wenn sie nicht so jung wäre, sie hat den 50. Geburtstag da noch vor sich. Ich fand das genauso nervig wie das Buch von Lisa Ortgies. Ja, das Altern ist nicht immer schön und hat auch hässliche Seiten und man muss sich mit vielem arrangieren, von dem man nie geglaubt hätte, dass man selbst einmal betroffen sein könnte. Aber wenn man in den 40ern schon auf so hohem Niveau jammert, wie will man dann die nächsten Jahrzehnte leben? ( ) no reviews | add a review
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 Middlepauseoffers 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 Middlepausea companion, and a friend. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.244Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Age groups Early adulthoodLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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