Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture (eBook)
XVIII, 338 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-3-319-63609-2 (ISBN)
Cathy McGlynn is an independent researcher and has taught at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, and the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Republic of Ireland.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.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.11.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 336 p. 10 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Schlagworte | Age • aged by culture • Ageing • Growing Old • Literature • representation of women • Visual Culture • Women |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-63609-X / 331963609X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-63609-2 / 9783319636092 |
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