A Question of Age

Women, Ageing and the Forever Self

Jacinta Parsons, Jacinta Parsons

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English

ABC Audio
01 September 2022

Personal & public health

Grappling with ageing is one of the most confronting elements of being a woman. When we become invisible, when we lose our sexual currency, when we lose that elasticity in our skin, when our bodies soften and change, when our perceived 'value' to society dramatically falls, when our notion of self-worth takes a radical shift.

What do we do when our outside self doesn't match our inside self? That old woman staring back at her reflection in the mirror doesn't understand why she feels so young. So how do we adjust our perceptions of getting older? What does it mean to age as a woman? How do we adjust our thinking about being in the world? What is our currency now?

Jacinta Parsons believes that midlife is a crucial reckoning with despair and hope, a time when you are naked in the centre of the world and no one notices or perhaps cares to look. Midlife is a time when you take stock – to look back and understand how you were made as a woman, and to look forward into the future, to see how you might unmake yourself to live the life that perhaps you should be living.

By: Jacinta Parsons
Read by: Jacinta Parsons
Imprint: ABC Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Simultaneous Release
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 190g
ISBN: 9781038618986
ISBN 10: 1038618983
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacinta Parsons is a broadcaster, radio maker, writer, and public speaker. She currently co-hosts The Friday Revue with Brian Nankervis on ABC Melbourne. She has written two books, a memoir, Unseen (Affirm Press 2020) and A Question of Age (Harper Collins/ABC Books 2022). She is a sought-after public speaker and facilitator with over 15 years of hosting live events. Jacinta has lived with Crohn's disease for over 20 years and is an ambassador for the Crohn's and Colitis Association and speaks and writes about the impact of living with chronic illness. Jacinta Parsons is a broadcaster, radio maker, writer and public speaker. Jacinta began her radio-life at community radio station 3RRR over a decade ago, where she coordinated live music broadcasts and hosted several shows including Detour and Breakfasters. As well as presenting The New Music Show on ABC Radio, she has produced and presented a number of national broadcast events. Jacinta is the author of memoir Unseen: The secret life of chronic illness and is an ambassador for the Crohn’s and Colitis Association of Australia.

Reviews for A Question of Age: Women, Ageing and the Forever Self

'A generous, brave, moving and deeply insightful work that will change lives for the better.' (on Unseen) -- Clare Bowditch, author of Your Own Kind of Girl