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Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto
Published by ECU Press
Author: Simon(e) van Saarloos
Editor: Kay Higgins
Copy Editor: Kate Woolf and Meagan Low
Designer: Kay Higgins
Publisher: ECU Press
Binding: Softcover
Dimensions: 16 x 13 x 1 cm
Page count: 164
Language: English
ISBN: 978 0 921356 52 3
Out of print
The first book in ECU Press’s Reflector series, Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: it is not a socio-economic argument against ageism, celebrating “the elderly” as economically viable. Author Simon(e) van Saarloos is not interested in natural arguments about age, which portray different age groups as valuable because of assumed inherent qualities. Instead, this manifesto starts with an experience of childhood sexual abuse, and moves on to dissect the ways in which constructions of “age” and “youth” function to support and reproduce white supremacist patriarchy. The book includes two reproductions of works by painter Samantha Nye.