Read Something that happens to other people: Stories of women growing older

Something that happens to other people: Stories of women growing older

Susan Feldman

4.9/5 (32884 ratings)

Description:STORIES OF WOMEN AND AGEING BY GLENDA ADAMS, LILY BRETT, SARA DOWSE, ELIZABETH JOLLEY, JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH, GEORGIA SAVAGE, ROBERTA SYKES AND ELISABETH WYNHAUSEN. Eight of Australia’s most celebrated women writers tackle the difficult subject of ageing, and why we as a society find it an awkward subject to broach. Each of the three editors who put this collection together share an interest in writing, gender and ageing, and two of the editors actively work in the area, one teaching creative writing to women aged 60-85, the other as Project Director at the Alma Unit on Women and Ageing at Melbourne University. The editors invited the eight eminent contributors to write about their experiences of ageing, asking them to reflect on what ageing means to them and to explore how their own stories challenge cultural understandings of women and ageing. They felt that, when it came to ageing, there were few storylines available to women outside the traditional stories of lost youth and physical deterioration. Powerful and positive images of older women in contemporary Australian literature and culture are rare. What we need, and what this collection gives us, are stories of ageing which give us more authentic, complex and diverse representations of what it means to grow old. After all, it will happen to all of us if we’re lucky.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Something that happens to other people: Stories of women growing older. To get started finding Something that happens to other people: Stories of women growing older, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Vintage Books USA: reprint Random House Australia

Release: —

ISBN: 0091833345

Description: STORIES OF WOMEN AND AGEING BY GLENDA ADAMS, LILY BRETT, SARA DOWSE, ELIZABETH JOLLEY, JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH, GEORGIA SAVAGE, ROBERTA SYKES AND ELISABETH WYNHAUSEN. Eight of Australia’s most celebrated women writers tackle the difficult subject of ageing, and why we as a society find it an awkward subject to broach. Each of the three editors who put this collection together share an interest in writing, gender and ageing, and two of the editors actively work in the area, one teaching creative writing to women aged 60-85, the other as Project Director at the Alma Unit on Women and Ageing at Melbourne University. The editors invited the eight eminent contributors to write about their experiences of ageing, asking them to reflect on what ageing means to them and to explore how their own stories challenge cultural understandings of women and ageing. They felt that, when it came to ageing, there were few storylines available to women outside the traditional stories of lost youth and physical deterioration. Powerful and positive images of older women in contemporary Australian literature and culture are rare. What we need, and what this collection gives us, are stories of ageing which give us more authentic, complex and diverse representations of what it means to grow old. After all, it will happen to all of us if we’re lucky.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Something that happens to other people: Stories of women growing older. To get started finding Something that happens to other people: Stories of women growing older, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Something that happens to other people: Stories of women growing older

Something that happens to other people: Stories of women growing older

More Books

Something That Lasts

Something That Lasts

Rosanna's Boys

Rosanna's Boys

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death

The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism

The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism

Philosophical Analysis

Philosophical Analysis

The Flaming Heart and Other Sermons

The Flaming Heart and Other Sermons

The Breath of Life

The Breath of Life

The World a Spiritual System

The World a Spiritual System

The Randolphs

The Randolphs