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Kathleen (Hrsg.) Woodward

Figuring Age

Women, Bodies, Generations

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Figuring Age engages the virtually invisible subject of older women inwestern culture. Like other markers of social difference, age is given meaning by aculture. Yet unlike gender and race, the subjects of age and aging have receivedlittle sustained attention. Central to Figuring Age is the crucial question of howwomen are aged by culture. How are older women represented in a visual culture thatis dominated by images of youth in television, film, and life performance? How dopsychoanalysis, rejuvenation therapy and hormone replacement therapy, the fashionsystem, cosmetic surgery, and midlife bodybuilding shape our views of aging as wellas of t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-253-21236-8
  • EAN: 9780253212368
  • Produktnummer: 24367986
  • Verlag: Indiana University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
  • Seitenangabe: 392 S.
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.5 cm 640 g
  • Abbildungen: 31 b&w photos, 6 figures
  • Gewicht: 640
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Kathleen Woodward is Director of the Center for Twentieth Century Studies and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions and At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams. She is also the editor of Memory and Desire: Aging-Literature-Psychoanalysis (with Murray Schwartz) and The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture.

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