Discourses of ageing in fiction and feminism : the invisible woman / Jeannette King

Author:: King, Jeannette
Published:: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Physical Description:: xvii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Becoming Visible -- 1.Crones, Viragos or Wise Women? Discourses of Female Ageing 1850-1900 -- 2.Spinsters, Widows and Mothers: Fictional Responses -- 3.The Demented Other -- pt. II The 1960s and After -- 4.Second-wave Feminism: Sisterhood and `My Generation' -- 5.`If the Old Could': Bridging the Generation Gap -- 6.Autobiographical Fictions of Female Ageing -- pt. III The 1990s -- 7.Discourses of Female Ageing at the Fin de Siecle -- 8.The Sexual Politics of Ageing.

Subject(s):

Fiction—History and criticism
Women in literature
Aging in literature
Feminism and literature

ISBN:

9780230298569
0230298567

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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