Overview
- 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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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Narratives of Ageing
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Social Roles: Mothers, Widows, Spinsters
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The Body and Embodiment
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Class, ‘Race’ and Agency
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About this book
Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Margaret O’Neill is Gender ARC Project Coordinator at the University of Limerick and has taught at the University of Limerick and Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland.
Michaela Schrage-Früh is Lecturer in German at the National University of Ireland Galway, Republic of Ireland, and Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture
Book Subtitle: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings
Editors: Cathy McGlynn, Margaret O'Neill, Michaela Schrage-Früh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63609-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63608-5Published: 29 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87593-4Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63609-2Published: 23 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 336
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Culture and Gender, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Culture and Gender, Media and Communication, Literature, general