Eva-Maria Trinkaus

An intersectional lens: challenging, resisting, and embracing old age in Lore Segal’s “Ladies Lunch”

Fictional narratives about female friendships in old age, Chivers (2003) argues, can be part of “constructive narratives of aging” in an “imaginary world that can reflect and especially affect circulating social thought.” Such a representation of friendship in old age is at the core of Lore Segal’s short story cycle “Ladies Lunch” (2023). In this narrative a

Examining aging and care through an intersectional-sensitive lens