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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“No One Noticed Her”: Ageing Spinsters and Youth Culture in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Short Storiesanning the author’s long writing career from the interwar period in the 1930s to her later work in the 1960s. Taking Warner’s most famous ageing spinster Lolly Willowes as its starting-point, it analyses the construction of spinsterhood in a selection of Warner’s critically neglected short stories,

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Older Women and Sexuality On-Screen: Euphemism and Evasion?ng attitudes about the supposed asexuality of older women. This paper will track the extent to which this ideological shift has continued to gain ground over the last number of years, given factors such as changing demographics, the perceived power of the “grey pound,” the continuing popularity of a

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A Certain Truth in Fiction: Perceptions of the Ageing Process in Irish Women’s Fiction where ageing has become a disproportionate marker in terms of control and success. How we manage our relationship with our own maturation is crucial to how we sustain a viable place among communities. This weighs hardest on women, as Susan Sontag suggests in “The Double Standard of Aging,” where sh

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Future and Present Imaginaries: The Politics of the Ageing Female Body in Lena Dunham’s , (HBO, 2012ological age and the ideal female body have been dominant aspects of the intertextual context of the series from the outset and much has been made of Dunham’s own youth and body type. With the politics of cultural ageism in mind, this chapter argues that . representation of older age and the female

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“I Become Shameless as a Child”: Childhood, Femininity and Older Age in J.M. Coetzee’s ,thus releases his elderly female protagonist from the enervation conventionally associated with senescence. This is achieved by inscribing the aged female body with images of childhood that disrupt the hegemonic flow of sequential, linear time. Instead, the novel posits that both childhood and older

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Cathy McGlynn,Margaret O‘Neill,Michaela Schrage-FrStellar 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