Abstract
This article attends to Beauvoir’s concept of the image in The Coming of Age, Les Belles Images, and A Walk through the Land of Old Age. The author argues that the experience of being an older adult emerges primarily from the available social images of old age rather than from the aging body. This view reveals problems with the discourse around older people that fueled the covid-19 care home crisis and that persist in our response to the crisis.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 290-308 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Simone de Beauvoir Studies |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 21 Dec 2023 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Simone de Beauvoir
- care home crisis
- covid-19
- freedom
- image
- old age
- unrealizable
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