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Aging femininities : troubling representations /

Older women have never been so visible, or so problematised, in popular media culture as now, but what kinds of representations are being offered and how can we make sense of them in the context of post-feminism and global economic change?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dolan, Josephine Mary, Tincknell, Estella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Passion, penury, and psychosis : representations of the spinster by interwar dramatists / Rebecca D'Monte
  • Aged females through the Victorian gothic male gaze : Edgar Allan Poe's Madame Lalande and Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla / Marta Miquel-Baldellou
  • W. Barns-Graham and old age : Celebration at 90 / Nedira Yakir
  • Performing Mrs Whistler : women, image and identity / Mary MacMaster
  • Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies : the politics of nostalgia and the older woman in the Sunday night television serial / Estella Tincknell
  • "It isn't going to be like this, is it?" Class, race, and dis-identification at Bristol's A celebration of age festival / Josephine Dolan
  • Pleasures, pains, and paradoxes : approaching the beauty salon in feminist research / Terry Bacon and Kate Brooks.
  • Botrageous agers : performativity and transgression : take one / Rosy Martin
  • Photo-essay : outrageous agers : performativity and transgression : take two / Rosy Martin and Kay Goodridge
  • Beyond patriarchy : Six feet under and the older woman / Sherryl Wilson
  • Unveiling "the other within" : the crucible of internal alterity in Laurent Cantet's Heading south / Nuria Casado-Gual
  • Exemplary or exceptional embodiment? Discourses of aging in the case of Helen Mirren and Calendar girls / Sadie Wearing
  • The "hip-op" generation : representing the aging female body in Saga magazine / Joanne Garde-Hansen
  • Old enough to sing Tosca : the paradox of age and femininity and the opera diva / Pamela Karantonis
  • Grit, glitter and glamour : tracing authenticity in the aging artifice of Dolly Parton / Abigail Gardner
  • "She's so vein" : Madonna and the drag of aging / Diane Railton and Paul Watson.