An international three-day conference on Women and Ageing, featuring the Australian academic and journalist Germaine Greer, will be held at the University of Limerick on 20-22 May.

Sixty delegates from the US, Canada, South Africa, Israel, Australia, Europe, the UK and Ireland will present papers on a variety of topics, including motherhood, spinsterhood, sexuality, women minorities, health and fashion.

Germaine Greer’s address, which is open to the public, takes place on Thursday at 6pm. She will discuss the ways in which motherhood is being split so that the genetic mother, the womb mother and the legal mother may all be different individuals. The address concludes with a 30-minute question and answer session.

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For queries, email ageing.women@gmail.com or visit womenandageing.wordpress.com. Tickets for Germaine Greer’s addressare are €10 and can be purchased from www.eventbrite.ie .