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Why the two-generation theory of women needs a kick in the binary

In the authorised biography of womanhood, first, you are a young woman, sexually interesting, promising perhaps, good for playing the real-life heroine in traditional-but-modern life, Janicki marriage and motherhood, job on the side.

Your next stop is an older woman cute Nani or her bad-ass version, the le matriarch. The place where women are busy being complicated adults is a shadowy land on top of the Magic Faraway Tree.