Shame and the aging woman : confronting and resisting ageism in contemporary women's writings /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bouson, J. Brooks (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:	Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism.
Subjects:	Older women in literature. Aging in literature. Ageism. Literature > Women authors. Femmes âgées dans la littérature. Vieillissement dans la littérature. Âgisme. Écrits de femmes. Literary studies: from c 1900. Literary theory. Gender studies, gender groups. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. Ageism Aging in literature Literature > Women authors Older women in literature Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Preface
Chapter 1: Aging Women and the Age Mystique: Age Anxiety and Body Shame in the Contemporary Culture of Appearances
Chapter 2: The Mask of Aging and the Social Devaluation and Sexual Humiliation of the Aging and Old Woman
Chapter 3: Facing the Stranger in the Mirror in Illness, Disability, and Physical Decline
Chapter 4: Confronting and Resisting an Unlivable Age Culture.