一個人的老後 【男人版】: 自在快活, 做個老後新鮮人

by Chizuko Ueno, 上野千鶴子, 楊明綺 (Translator)

中老年喪偶、離婚率升高、男性人口多於女性、單身寄生族增加……
種種真實發生的社會現象，都宣告了男性也必須面對「一個人的老後」。
在一個人的老後世界裡，每個人都是剛起步的新鮮人，而一向背負更多社會與生活壓力的男性，更需要重新學習，把自己當成生命的主角，活出另一種意義與光采。

老後生活的真正考驗，不是經濟狀況、也不是人際關係，而是：與自我相處的能力。
建立一個沒有利害關係，而能共同分享的「老伴」交友圈；發掘讓自己樂在其中、生活有所寄託的興趣與喜好；規劃一套符合自我期待的照護計畫與臨終功課。
懂得為「自己」負責，你就能擁有成熟沉穩、怡然自得的老後生活。

《一個人的老後》作者上野千鶴子，特別針對男性的心理特質、生活需求和社會適應，提供中肯精闢的規劃忠告，藉此開啟男性老後生活思考的第一步，希望所有男性都能活出自己快樂的獨身之道。

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 10, 2012

About the author

Chizuko Ueno is a Japanese sociologist and Japan's "best-known feminist".

Her research field includes feminist theory, family sociology, and women's history. She is best known for her contribution to gender studies in Japan. As a public intellectual, she played a central role in creating the field of gender studies in Japanese academia. At the same time, her radical tendency and strong character has invited criticism (she described herself as "critical, assertive, and disobedient").

Ueno is a trenchant critic of postwar revisionism and criticizes the whitewashing of Japanese history, which she claims attempts to justify its colonialism, wartime atrocities, and racism both before and after World War II. In particular, she has defended the compensation of Korean comfort women who were forced into prostitution by the Empire of Japan.