Enter the Crone: Wisdom and the (Ageing) Female Body
The sociologist Arthur Frank, in his discussion of chronic illness, argues that we live ‘at the will of the body’. Contemporary Western attitudes suggest, to the contrary, that the body lives ‘at the will of the mind’. This article explores the problems of adopting an overly optimistic approach that...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2024
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Feminist theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 224-237 |
| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Pessimism
B Ageing B Death B the body B the crone B Neoliberalism B Optimism |
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