The Sex of Age and the Age of Sex The Compressions of Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Table of Contents ix
4. Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age 1
5. Part One: Age and Gender
6. The Sex of Age and the Age of Sex The Compressions of Life 29
7. Gender, Age, and Passivity Comment on Penelope Deutscher 43
8. The Myth of Woman Meets the Myth of Old Age An Alienating Encounter with the Aging Female Body 47
9. Age as a Problem for Both Sexes Comment on Gail Weiss 65
10. The Poetry of Habit Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Aging Embodiment 69
11. Are Poetic Habits Particular to the Aged? Comment on Helen A. Fielding 83
12. Part Two: Age and Ethics
13. Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age and Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason The Material Mediations of Age as Lived Experience 89
14. Habits Shifting Into Projects Comment on Sonia Kruks 103
15. The Other Without and the Other Within The Alterity of Aging and the Aged in Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age 107
16. Fear of Old Age Comment on Linda Fisher Comment on Linda Fisher 123
17. The Dignity of Finitude 127
18. Different Finite Bodies Comment on Debra Bergoffen 143
19. Letting Go the Weight of the Past Beauvoir and the Joy of Existence 147
20. Ethics and Nature Comment on Dorothea Olkowski 161
21. Part Three: Age and Time
22. Transformations of Old Age Selfhood, Normativity, and Time 167
23. Revisioning Classical Phenomenology Comment on Sara Heinämaa 191
24. We in the Other, and the Child in Us The Intersection of Time in Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty 195
25. Towards a Gerontological Ethics of Existence? Comment on Silvia Stoller 211
26. Age and Future Phenomenological Paths of Optimism 215
27. Ambiguous Future Comment on Christina Schües 231
28. Contributors 235
29. Index of Names 243