Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture

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This timely collection engages with representations of women and ageing in literature and visual culture. Acknowledging that cultural conceptions of ageing are constructed and challenged across a variety of media and genres, the editors bring together experts in literature and visual culture to foster a dialogue across disciplines. Exploring the process of ageing in its cultural reflections, refractions and reimaginings, the contributors to Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture analyse how artists, writers, directors and performers challenge, and in some cases reaffirm, cultural constructions of ageing women, as well as give voice to ageing women’s subjectivities. The book concludes with an afterword by Germaine Greer which suggests possible avenues for future research. 

Stellar contributor list: includes an afterword by world-renowned feminist writer Germaine Greer, and contributions from leading scholars in the field Ambitious approach: essays are interdisciplinary and bring together thinkers from the fields of literature studies, cultural studies, feminist and women’s studies, and ageing studies Highly topical: the concept of women and ageing is enjoying a boom period, and this project will be extremely well-placed to capitalise on, and build on, that foundation Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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“The essays collected in the volume ‘Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture‘ provide a welcome and concise overview of gendered approaches to Age Studies. Bringing together important concepts and topics of cultural gerontology, they also map out new directions such as the postcolonial perspective.” (PD Dr. Heike Hartung, University of Potsdam, Germany)

“This book offers a unique appraisal of visual cultures of women’s ageing across literature, the arts and contemporary mass media. It is wonderfully positive without shrinking from matters of the body, dementia and death.  Its well-written and empirically rich chapters revitalise feminist critical accounts of age and open up space for much needed intergenerational and interdisciplinary dialogue.  The book is a 'must read' for cultural gerontologists and feminists - of all ages!” (Jayne Raisborough, Leeds Beckett University, UK, author of Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self and Fat Bodies, Health and the Media)

“A wonderfully rich and textured account of the ways our culture presents the aging woman. A rich treasure store of critique and insight.” (Julia Twigg, University of Kent, UK)

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