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Ageing women in literature and visual culture : reflections, refractions, reimaginings / Cathy McGlynn, Margaret O'Neill, Michaela Schrage-Früh, editors

Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
xviii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Additional Creators
McGlynn, Cathy, 1978-, O'Neill, Margaret, 1926-, and Schrage-Früh, Michaela

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / Michaela Schrage-Fruh -- pt. I Narratives of Ageing -- 2.Making the Invisible Visible: The Presence of Older Women Artists in Early Modern Artistic Biography / Julia K. Dabbs -- 3.Losing One's Self: The Depiction of Female Dementia Sufferers in Iris (2001) and The Iron Lady (2011) / Eva Adelseck -- 4."Embarking, Not Dying": Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman / Michaela Schrage-Fruh -- 5.The Age Performances of Peggy Shaw: Intersection, Interoception and Interruption / Bridie Moore -- pt. II Social Roles: Mothers, Widows, Spinsters -- 6.Closing In: Restrictive Spaces for Ageing Mothers in Jane Austen's Novels / Amber Jones -- 7."No One Noticed Her": Ageing Spinsters and Youth Culture in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Short Stories / Cathy McGlynn -- 8.Stories of Motherhood and Ageing in ABC's Television Programme Once Upon a Time / Katherine Whitehurst -- 9."She Says She's Thirty-Five but She's Really Fifty-One": Rebranding the Middle-Aged Postfeminist Protagonist in Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones: Mad about The Boy / Lucinda Rasmussen -- pt. III The Body and Embodiment -- 10.Older Women and Sexuality On-Screen: Euphemism and Evasion? / Susan Liddy -- 11.A Certain Truth in Fiction: Perceptions of the Ageing Process in Irish Women's Fiction / Theresa Wray -- 12.Future and Present Imaginaries: The Politics of the Ageing Female Body in Lena Dunham's Girls (HBO, 2012--Present) / Hannah Grist -- 13.The New Model Subject: "Coolness" and the Turn to Older Women Models in Lifestyle and Fashion Advertising / Anne Jerslev -- 14.Performances of Situated Knowledge in the Ageing Female Body / EL Putnam -- pt. IV Class, `Race' and Agency -- 15."I Become Shameless as a Child": Childhood, Femininity and Older Age in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron / Antoinette Pretorius -- 16.African American Humour and the Construction of a Mature Female Middle-Class Identity in Clarence Major's Such Was the Season / Saskia Marguerita Furst -- 17."This Is How Time Unfolds When You Are Old": Ageing, Subjectivity and Joseph O'Connor's Ghost Light / Margaret O'Neill -- 18.The Visibility of Women's Ageing and Agency in Suzanne Lacy's The Crystal Quilt (1987) and Silver Action (2013) / Kate Antosik-Parsons -- 19.Afterword / Germaine Greer.
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ISBN
3319636081
9783319636085
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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