Cécile Charlap: "Men's bodies and sexuality are less disturbing than those of women, unless, at 50, they are ten years younger"

2022-04-01T03:36:28.255Z

Long taboo, menopause questions the place of women in society. Today, views are changing, sexist patterns are disappearing, cinema, advertising, social networks are giving new visibility to people in their fifties and over... Meeting with sociologist Cécile Charlap.

Fanny Ardant in love with forty-something Melvil Poupaud in

Les Jeunes Amants

, Emma Thompson as a 55-year-old widow who (re)discovers sex in

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

(soon in France), Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte who talk about menopause and libido in

And Just Like That

(the sequel to

Sex and the City

), the sixty-year-old Caroline Ida Ours who appears in her underwear for Darjeeling… According to our screens, advertising campaigns or fashion shows inviting silver models, a metamorphosis is underway: women aged 50 and over are gaining ground in new images aimed at shifting the focus on representations of female aging.

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Until now centered on the threat of physical inconveniences and gender inequalities, the stories addressing the lives of women in their 50s, 60s, 70s and over were all about deficiencies, depression and a long decline.

However, if life under menopause is not a long calm river, it does not have the same consequences for...

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