Female aging and the in-between place in the contemporary

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of female aging in contemporary Brazilian society based on the interpretation of the female author Millamor (2008) by the Brazilian writer Lívia Garcia-Roza. For that, a bibliographical and documentary research was carried out with an explanatory and qualitative approach, with the main objective of giving visibility to the ways of representing the aged female body, problematizing three aspects: a) the degraded aged body; b) the silenced aged body; c) the aged body redeemed, based on the representation of female characters highlighted by the aforementioned author in the course of the narrative. In short, it is concluded that aging is a multifactorial issue, in addition to a double burden when it comes to women and age, that is, the age factor is also a gender issue, since aging is a different process between men and women.

Keywords: Female body; aging; contemporary literature; Brazilian society.