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4. Simone de Beauvoir, Coming of Age (New York: G.B. Putnam’s Sons, 1972), p. 197.
5. Susan Feldman and Marilyn Poole, ‘Positioning Older Women,’ in A Certain Age: Women Growing Older, ed. by Susan Feldman and Marilyn Poole (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999), p. 3.