Rereading Simone de Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age from a Distance of Some Forty Years

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  • Thomas R. Cole UTHealth in Houston

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https://doi.org/10.7146/ageculturehumanities.v3i.130162

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Author Biography

Thomas R. Cole, UTHealth in Houston

directs the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at UTHealth in Houston. A graduate of Yale, Wesleyan, and the University of Rochester, he has written extensively on the history of aging, humanistic gerontology, and medical/health humanities. His authored and edited books include The Journey of Life; What Does It Mean to Grow Old?; Handbook of Humanities and Aging (2 editions); The Oxford Book of Aging; A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging; and Medical Humanities: An Introduction. His current project is A Country for Old Men. Readers may write to Tom Cole at Thomas.Cole@uth.tmc.edu.

References

Baars, Jan. Aging and the Art of Living. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 2012.

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Coming of Age. Trans. Patrick O’Brian. New York: Putnam, 1972. Butler, Robert. The Longevity Revolution. New York: Public Affairs, 2008.

Cole, Thomas R. “An Essay on Aging in Modern American History.” MA thesis. Wesleyan University, 1975.

Deutscher, Penelope. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008

Gullette, Margaret. Declining to Decline. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1997. Holstein, Martha. Women in Late Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Klein, Daniel. Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life. New York: Penguin, 2012.

Ray, Ruth. “A Postmodern Perspective on Feminist Gerontology.” The Gerontologist 36.5

(1996): 674-80.

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2018-01-01

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Cole, T. R. . “Rereading Simone De Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age from a Distance of Some Forty Years”. Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 3, Jan. 2018, pp. 207-16, doi:10.7146/ageculturehumanities.v3i.130162.

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Vol. 3 (2018): Age, Culture, Humanities (Forum: Rereading Beauvoir)

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