The Middlepause: On turning fifty
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1489409300 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 509 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Three Stars Gave it as a gift.. Four Stars Amazon Customer honest description of women health a must read intelligent. P. Stern said A welcome reflection on menopause. When I came across this book I was thrilled to find a door opening into my wife's menopausal experience. For those of us outside this profound change, Benjamin's is likely to be the best description we have: she leaves us with insight, understanding, and empathy. Her account -- well crafted, solidly researched, and thoughtfully tied to broader reflections on m
A candid and beautifully written wrinkles-and-all meditation on the middle years, with all their dilemmas and challengesIn a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a 50-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth and experience? The Middlepause offers hope, and heart. 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. She uncovers the secret misogynistic history of HRT, and tells us why a dose of Jung is better than a trip to the gym. 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.. 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. Cutting through society’s clamorous demands to work longer and stay yo
This is a book that yields valuable insights on almost every page.” —Melissa Benn, The Guardian“In The Middlepause, Marina Benjamin takes a candid look at what it means to be 50 today. As a means of inducting younger women into the business of getting older, this is a welcome narrative.” —Deirdre Conroy, Irish Independent “The Middlepause isn't some deluding self-help book that insists middle-age is a time of great growth for us all. It's an accurate and thoughtful assessment of the credit and debit sheet, and it remains emotionally genuine throughout. Go to a resort! Have a bang-up party! Far, far better: read The Middlepause.” —Jill Lepore, staff writer for The New Yorker an
Marina Benjamin is the author of two previous memoirs, Rocket Dreams, short-listed for the Eugene Emme Award, and Last Days in Babylon, long-listed for the Wingate Prize. She lives in London and is currently a senior editor at the digital magazine Aeon.