Titlebook: Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture; Reflections, Refract Cathy McGlynn,Margaret O‘Neill,Michaela Schrage-Fr Book 2017 The Editor

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8838-3 calendar, this chapter argues that crucially the notion of . is reinscribed across these labels by way of the “edgy” older woman subject, and examines to what extent this challenges (or merely relocates) established norms pertaining to what kinds of bodies warrant our desire and attention.

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Book 2017geing are constructed and challenged across a variety of media and genres, the editors bring together experts in literature and visual culture to foster a dialogue across disciplines. Exploring the process of ageing in its cultural reflections, refractions and reimaginings, the contributors to Agein

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Introduction,visual culture to foster a much-needed dialogue across disciplines. In doing so, it analyses the power these constructions exert over public and private conceptions of age, and explores the ways in which the figure of the ageing woman is reimagined or reinscribed across media, genres and cultures. T

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Losing One’s Self: The Depiction of Female Dementia Sufferers in , (2001) and , (2011)s Murdoch, and . (2011), a biopic about former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This chapter analyses the filmic portrayal of Iris Murdoch and Margaret Thatcher and examines the depiction of autonomy and dependency in the different stages of their lives. It argues that the tension between their unt

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“Embarking, Not Dying”: Clare Boylan’s , as ,novel about seventy-five-year-old Lily Butler counteracts the cultural myth of ageing as a narrative of decline without denying its validity. In fact, it is her husband’s mental and physical decline, and eventual death, that forces Lily to review her own life and embark on a journey towards self-dis

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