A Spinster with a Twist: The Amateur Sleuth and Perspectives on Ageing and Gender in the Sunday Philosophy Club Series

Abstract

Ageing is much more a social judgement than a biological eventuality. Far more extensive than the hard sense of loss suffered during menopause [...] is the depression about ageing, may not be set off by any real event in a woman ’ s life, but in a recurrent state of “ possession ” of her imagination, ordained by society – is, ordained by way this society limits how women feel free imagine themselves.