Marshall Age Becomes Us

Bodies and Gender in Time
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5698-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marshall, Leni

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Constructing the Body of Age Studies

2. Deconstructing the Body Through Age Studies: A Primer

3. Ambiguous Loss, Ambiguous Gain: Age Studies Analyses in Menopause and Beyond

4. Changing Bodies and Changing Minds with Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers

5. Lucille Clifton’s Poetic Perspective and Aging

6. Storytelling and Cultural Transmission, with Louise Erdrich’s Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

7. Rewriting Death, Rewriting Life

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leni Marshall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Stout and the coeditor (with Valerie Barnes Lipscomb) of Staging Age: The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film.