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SUMMARY:More Than a MILF: Writing Sex and the Aging Female Body.
DESCRIPTION:Price: $199.00\n\nWhat do aging women want? A break from monoga
 my and domesticity? Casual young lovers of all genders? A hotel room of th
 eir own? Or something more significant?  Indeed\, recent literary fiction
  suggests that the answer lies in a combination of the above—and more.\n
 This course introduces you to texts starring a variety of unruly female pr
 otagonists who are honouring their peri\, post or presently menopause selv
 es with swagger—at a time when their newly seemingly invisible bodies ar
 e sagging in surprising places.  It asks: How do these works disrupt redu
 ctive and often cringey tropes featuring aging women as MILFS? How can we 
 springboard off these texts to write our own no-longer-young bodies and de
 sires back into the picture—with a difference?\nParticipants are invited
  to get experiential\, fictional and playful as they respond to tailored p
 rompts specifically designed to help them create a draft of their own. The
 y are also invited to share their work\, and they will receive feedback th
 at will allow them to walk away with an enhanced ability to write insightf
 ully about sex and the aging female body.\nThroughout the course\, the ins
 tructor will share highlights from the following works of literary fiction
 : Annie Ernaux’s The Young Man\, Michelle Hart’s We Do What We Do in t
 he Dark\,Aysegül Savaś’ “Marseille\,” Miranda July’s All Fours\,
  Gu Byeong-Mo’s The Old Woman with the Knife\, and Susan Minot’s Don
 ’t Be a Stranger.\nAt times\, the instructor will also draw on recent re
 levant pop culture\, such as Babygirl and The White Lotus (Season 3)\, as 
 well as popular novels that have been adapted for the screen like Terry Mc
 Millan’s How Stella got her Groove Back\, and Tom Perrota’s Mrs. Fletc
 her.\nWhen relevant\, the instructor will make reference to crucial non-fi
 ction texts linked to sex and the aging female body\, including: Victoria 
 Smiths Hags: The Demonization of Middle-Aged Women\, Linda Hess’ Queer A
 ging in North American Fiction\, and Carleen Brice’s anthology Age Ain
 ’t Nothing but a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife.
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