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Old age

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Simone de Beauvoir is best known to a wide readership as the author of "The Second Sex" (1949), a seminal work exploring the position of women and their oppression. Twenty years later, Beauvoir published a book equally monumental to her celebrated work, examining the experience of old age and its social dimensions. The author's goal is to "break the conspiracy of silence" and answer questions such as: How is old age perceived in society, and what does it mean to grow old? Why are the elderly treated as "members of an alien species," pretending that their fate is not the universal destiny of all humanity? Aging is a biological phenomenon situated in an economic and cultural context: in order to understand the situation of the elderly, in the first part of Old Age (1970), Beauvoir turns to data from biology, ethnology, history and sociology, and in the second, she explores the inner life of the elderly – she talks about their relationship to time, to society, to their own body, as well as to family, loneliness and death.
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