title: [Growing old as a woman].
abstract: Growing old as a woman. Since Diderot, a classic writer, and his friend Sophie Volland with whom he corresponded, debated the difference between the "handsome old man" and "beautiful old age", or a hypothetical "beautiful old woman", the representations of growing old have changed, to the benefit of women. Has the considerable contribution of female writers to the debate played a role? In what ways does literature, through its figurations of the ages of life, provide a valuable perspective of the contemporary mutations of the view of old age?
authors.affiliation: Université Lyon2 Lumière, 18 qua Claude Bernard, 69007 Lyon, France. Martine.Boyer-Weinmann@univ-lyon2.fr
authors.forename: Martine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boyer-Weinmann
mesh_terms: D032721:Adult Children; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D009034:Mother-Child Relations