Hagitude

Blackie, Sharon. Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life. Illustrations by Natalie Eslick. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2023. 9781608688432 ; Book--Women's Spirituality; Sharon Blackie; Sharon Blackie writes, ‘In the oldest known cosmology of my native lands, it wasn’t a sky-bound old man with a beard who made and shaped this world. It was an old woman. A giant old woman, who has been with us down all the long ages, since the beginning of time.’ Deftly interweaving myth, psychology and memoir, Sharon Blackie argues that menopause ushers in a rich and vibrant new phase of life, and explores the many different ways in which women can flourish during what is so often portrayed as a time of decline. Hagitude unearths the stories of the little-known but powerful elder women in European myth and folklore, inspiring readers to imagine that the last decades of our lives might be the most dynamic of all. This moving and uplifting book will inspire a new generation of female elders: wome