Out of Time (39 page)

38
  Larry Elliot, ‘Right-wing Dogma has had its Day’,
Guardian
, 6 September 2010.

39
  Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett,
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
, London, Allen Lane, 2009.

40
  Marina Warner, ‘The Baby Boomers and the Price of Personal Freedom’,
Observer
, 22 August 2010.

41
  Small,
The Long Life
, p. 272.

42
  Thomas Cole and Ruth Ray, ‘The Humanistic Study of Aging Past and Present, or Why Gerontology Still Needs Interpretive Inquiry’, in Cole, Ray and Kastenbaum, eds,
A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging
.

43
  Barbara Frey Waxman,
To Live in the Center of the Moment
, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1997, p. 2.

44
  Miller,
Crazy Age
, p. 1.

45
  Ibid., p. 7.

46
  Penelope Lively, ‘Shop till you Drop’,
The Spectator
, 18 September 2010.

47
  Ibid.

48
  Harry Blatterer and Julia Glahn, eds,
Times of Our Lives: Making Sense of Growing Up and Growing Old
, Oxford, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009.

49
  Giuliana Di Biase, ‘Wisdom and Old Age’, in ibid., p. 345; John-Raphael Staude, ‘Last Works: The Late Life Creativity of Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse’, in ibid.

50
  Elizabeth Wilson,
Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain 1945–1968
, London, Tavistock, 1980; see Lynne Segal,
Making Trouble: Life and Politics
, London, Serpent’s Tail, 2007, Chapter 3.

51
  Adrienne Rich,
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
, New York, Norton, 1976.

52
  See, for example, E. Ann Kaplan, ‘Motherhood and Representation: From Postwar Freudian Figurations to Postmodernism’, in E. Ann Kaplan, ed.,
Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
, New York, Routledge, 1990, pp. 129–42; Amber Jacobs,
On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother
, New York, Columbia University Press, 2007.

53
  Lisa Baraitser,
Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
, London and New York, Routledge, 2009.

54
  Kathleen Woodward, ‘Inventing Generational Models: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Literature’, in Woodward, ed.,
Figuring Age
, p. 149.

55
  Barbara Myerhoff, quoted in ibid., p. 166.

56
  Mary Russo, ‘Aging and the Scandal of Anachronism’, in Woodward, ed.,
Figuring Age
, p. 28.

57
  Rose, quoted in ibid., p. 29.

58
  Rosi Braidotti,
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory
, New York, Columbia University Press, 1994, p. 207.

59
  Dana Heller, ‘The Anxiety of Affluence: Movements, Markets, and Lesbian Feminist Generation(s)’, in Devoney Looser and E. Ann Kaplan, eds,
Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue
, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, p. 310.

60
  See the essays in Looser and Kaplan, eds,
Generations
, ibid.

61
  Carolyn Heilbrun,
The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
, New York, The Dial Press, 1977, p. 39.

62
  Susan Faludi, ‘American Electra: Feminism’s ritual matricide’,
Harper’s Magazine
, 16 October 2010.

63
  W. H. Auden, from his dedication to Valerie Eliot in
City Without Walls and Other Poems
, London, Faber, 1969.

64
  Miller,
Crazy Age
, p. 99.

65
  Robert Frost, ‘Provide, Provide’, in
Literature and Aging: An Anthology
, ed. Martin Kohn, Carol Donley and Delese Wear, Kent, OH, The Kent State University Press, 1992, p. 38.

Chapter 3. The Perils of Desire

1
  Adam Phillips, ‘Time Pieces’, in
Side Effects
, London, Hamish Hamilton, p. 104.

2
  Katharine Whitehorn, ‘This Lopsided Mirror to Life’,
Guardian
, 6 November 2010, p. 35.

3
  Elizabeth Markson and Carol Taylor, ‘The Mirror Has Two Faces’,
Ageing and Society
20: 2 (2000), p. 137; see also Sarah Grogan,
Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children
, London, Routledge, 2008.

4
  Simone de Beauvoir,
The Coming of Age
, 1972, p. 542. Further page references are given in the text.

5
  Jaques, ‘Death and the Mid-life Crisis’,
International Journal of Psychoanalysis
, (1965), 46, pp. 502–13.

6
  See Lynne Segal,
Slow Motion, Changing Masculinities, Changing Men
, London, Palgrave, 2007; Anthony Clare,
On Men: The Crisis of Masculinity
, London, Chatto & Windus, 2000; World Health Organization,
What About Boys? A Literature Review on the Health and Development of Adolescent Boys
. WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, 2000; The Men’s Health Forum,
Getting It Sorted: A New Policy for Men’s Health, A Consultative Document
, available at
www.menshealthforum.org.uk
, June 2002.

7
  Stephen Frosh et al.,
Young Masculinities
, London, Palgrave, 2001.

8
  Susan Faludi,
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
, London, Harper Perrenial, 2000.

9
  Gullette,
Aged by Culture
, pp. 82–7.

10
  Gregory Gross and Robert Blundo, ‘Viagra: Medical Technology Constructing Aging Masculinity’,
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
32: I (2005).

11
  David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald, ‘Is Well-being U-shaped Over the Life Cycle?’,
Social Science and Medicine
66:8 (2008), pp. 1733–49.

12
  S. Coren and P. L. Hewitt, ‘Sex Differences in Elderly Suicide Rates: Some Predictive Factors’,
Aging and Mental Health
3:2 (1999), pp. 112–18; Department of Health and Human Services,
The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Suicide
, Washington DC, 1999.

13
  Christine Moutier, Julie Wetherell and Sidney Zisook, ‘Combined Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy for Late-life Depression’,
Geriatric Times
4:5 (2003), pp. 14–15.

14
  Lenard Kaye and Jennifer Crittenden, ‘Principles of Clinical practice with Older Men’,
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
, March, 2005, 32: 1, pp. 99-124.

15
  Leslie Fiedler, ‘More Images of Eros and Old Age: The Damnation of Faust and the Fountain of Youth’, in
Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis
, Woodward and Schwartz, eds, 1986.

16
  Philip Roth,
Exit Ghost
, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007, p. 103.

17
  Ibid., pp. 109–10.

18
  Philip Roth,
Everyman
, London, Jonathan Cape, 2006, p. 130.

19
  ‘Philip Roth’, documentary for French television series
Writers of the Century
, 1997, quoted in Debra Shostak, ‘Roth and Gender’, in Timothy Parrish, ed.,
The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth
, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 111.

20
  William Butler Yeats, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, available at
www.online-literature.com
.

21
  Roth,
Everyman
, p. 156.

22
  Updike has his ageing protagonist, Ben Turnball, reflect: ‘ferocious female nagging is the price men pay for our much lamented prerogatives, the power and mobility of the penis’, in
Toward the End of Time
, London, Penguin, 1997, p. 13.

23
  John Updike in conversation with Joanna Cole, ‘Sex, Age and Underpants’,
Mail and Guardian Online
, 9 April 1998, available at
www.mg.co.za
.

24
  Updike,
Toward the End of Time
, p. 268.

25
  Andrew Anthony, ‘Martin Amis: The wunderkind comes of age’,
Observer
, 10 January 2010.

26
  Joe Brooker, ‘The Middle Years of Martin Amis’, in R. Mengham and P. Tew, eds,
British Fiction Today
, London, Continuum, pp. 3–14.

27
  Martin Amis,
The Information
, London, Harper Collins, 1996, p. 62.

28
  Martin Amis,
Experience
, London, Vintage, 2001, p. 64.

29
  Martin Amis
The Pregnant Widow
, London, Vintage, 2009, pp. 3, 462.

30
  Edmund White,
Chaos
, London, Bloomsbury, 2010, pp. 19, 20, 21.

31
  Jeremy Laurance, ‘Four in 10 Men Over 75 Say They are Still Having Sex (But Only Two in 10 Women)’,
Independent
, 10 March 2010; Stacy Tessler Lindau et al., ‘A Study of Sexuality and Health Among Older Adults in the United States’,
New England Journal of Medicine
357 (2007), pp. 762–74.

32
  Linn Sandberg,
Getting Intimate: A Feminist Analysis of Old Age, Masculinity and Sexuality
, Linkoping, Linkoping University, 2011, p. 258.

33
  Margaret Cruickshank,
Fierce with Reality
, Minneapolis, North Star Press, 1995.

34
  Germaine Greer,
The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause
, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1991, pp. 2–4, 61–2, 433–5, 440.