Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College. Her books include Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; and Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure. She co-wrote Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism with Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright.
A powerful manifesto for dealing with the march of time. * Observer [Out of Time] * Compassionate, seasoned, honest, and wise, which asks questions about age but aims to enlighten, rather than frighten us. -- Elaine Showalter * [Out of Time] * A profound and lively examination of what it means to age, to confront the prejudices against the old, and to find a way to affirm their passion and fantasy, their bonds, and their sorrows -- Judith Butler * [Out of Time] * Wide ranging in its analyses of feminist, political and social theory -- Margaret Drabble * [Out of Time] * She turns on the subject a critical eye honed by social psychology, psychoanalysis, feminism and radical politics. An original, probing and unsettling exploration -- Stuart Hall * [Out of Time] *