Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture - Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings
von: Cathy McGlynn, Margaret O'Neill, Michaela Schrage-Früh
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
ISBN: 9783319636092
Sprache: Englisch
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Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture - Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings
| Acknowledgements | 5 | ||
| Contents | 6 | ||
| Editors and Contributors | 9 | ||
| List of Figures | 14 | ||
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 16 | ||
| Narratives of Ageing | 23 | ||
| Social Roles | 25 | ||
| The Body and Embodiment | 27 | ||
| Class, “Race” and Agency | 29 | ||
| Works Cited | 33 | ||
| Part I Narratives of Ageing | 36 | ||
| Chapter 2 Making the Invisible Visible: The Presence of Older Women Artists in Early Modern Artistic Biography | 37 | ||
| Introduction | 37 | ||
| Old Age Tropes in the Life Story of the Male Artist | 39 | ||
| Old Age Tropes in the Life Story of the Female Artist | 42 | ||
| Acknowledgement | 52 | ||
| Works Cited | 52 | ||
| Chapter 3 Losing One’s Self: The Depiction of Female Dementia Sufferers in Iris (2001) and The Iron Lady (2011) | 55 | ||
| Works Cited | 68 | ||
| Chapter 4 “Embarking, Not Dying”: Clare Boylan’s Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman | 69 | ||
| Works Cited | 84 | ||
| Chapter 5 The Age Performances of Peggy Shaw: Intersection, Interoception and Interruption | 86 | ||
| Ageing Centre Stage | 91 | ||
| Intersection | 92 | ||
| Interoception: The Journey Inside | 96 | ||
| Interruption | 100 | ||
| Conclusion | 102 | ||
| Works Cited | 103 | ||
| Part II Social Roles: Mothers, Widows, Spinsters | 106 | ||
| Chapter 6 Closing In: Restrictive Spaces for Ageing Mothers in Jane Austen’s Novels | 107 | ||
| Works Cited | 121 | ||
| Chapter 7 “No One Noticed Her”: Ageing Spinsters and Youth Culture in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Short Stories | 122 | ||
| Works Cited | 138 | ||
| Chapter 8 Stories of Motherhood and Ageing in ABC’s Television Programme Once Upon a Time | 140 | ||
| Adapting “Snow White” | 142 | ||
| Programme Overview | 144 | ||
| A Continued Maturation: Motherhood, Ageing and the Serial Storyline | 146 | ||
| Works Cited | 154 | ||
| Chapter 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 | 157 | ||
| Works Cited | 171 | ||
| Part III The Body and Embodiment | 175 | ||
| Chapter 10 Older Women and Sexuality On-Screen: Euphemism and Evasion? | 176 | ||
| Works Cited | 187 | ||
| Chapter 11 A Certain Truth in Fiction: Perceptions of the Ageing Process in Irish Women’s Fiction | 190 | ||
| Works Cited | 200 | ||
| Chapter 12 Future and Present Imaginaries: The Politics of the Ageing Female Body in Lena Dunham’s Girls (HBO, 2012–Present) | 203 | ||
| Ageing and Feminism | 205 | ||
| Intergenerational and Paratextual Ageism | 207 | ||
| The Female Grotesque: Dunham’s Body and Parallels in Ageist Discourse | 209 | ||
| The Ageing Body and Narratives of Decline: ‘Grandma Flo’ and the Artist ‘Beadie’ | 211 | ||
| Neoliberal Post-feminism: Evie Michaels and “Ageing Successfully” | 215 | ||
| Ageing as Verisimilitude: Loreen Horvath and “Everyday Ageing” | 217 | ||
| Work Cited | 220 | ||
| Chapter 13 The New Model Subject: “Coolness” and the Turn to Older Women Models in Lifestyle and Fashion Advertising | 224 | ||
| Joan Didion for Céline | 226 | ||
| Cool | 229 | ||
| “An Arty Soft-Core Ode to Pinups”: Contextualising the Pirelli Calendar | 231 | ||
| Pirelli’s New Cool—Unveiling “The Cal” in 2017 | 233 | ||
| Ways of Seeing: Older Women and Visibility | 235 | ||
| Works Cited | 238 | ||
| Chapter 14 Performances of Situated Knowledge in the Ageing Female Body | 242 | ||
| Age Gracefully? Hell No! | 245 | ||
| Generational Cross-Dressing | 248 | ||
| Ageing as Corporeal Traces of Time | 253 | ||
| Conclusion | 257 | ||
| Works Cited | 257 | ||
| Part IV Class, ‘Race’ and Agency | 260 | ||
| Chapter 15 “I Become Shameless as a Child”: Childhood, Femininity and Older Age in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron | 261 | ||
| Works Cited | 278 | ||
| Chapter 16 African American Humour and the Construction of a Mature Female Middle-Class Identity in Clarence Major’s Such Was the Season | 280 | ||
| Works Cited | 290 | ||
| Chapter 17 “This Is How Time Unfolds When You Are Old”: Ageing, Subjectivity and Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light | 293 | ||
| Works Cited | 304 | ||
| Chapter 18 The Visibility of Women’s Ageing and Agency in Suzanne Lacy’s The Crystal Quilt (1987) and Silver Action (2013) | 306 | ||
| The Crystal Quilt | 308 | ||
| Silver Action | 313 | ||
| The Visibility of Ageing and Agency | 317 | ||
| Works Cited | 321 | ||
| Chapter 19 Afterword | 324 | ||
| Index | 329 |