Aging Femininities

Author : Josephine Dolan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527551121

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Aging Femininities by Josephine Dolan Pdf

Older women have never been so visible, or so problematised, in popular media culture as now; but what kinds of representations are being offered, and how can we make sense of them in the context of post-feminism and global economic change? Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations offers a timely intervention into the hiatus between the visibility of aging femininity in contemporary circuits of culture and its marginalisation in cultural theory. From “graceful agers” and Saga subscribers, to make-over models and pop divas, each of the essays in this collection interrogates the different manifestations of “aging femininity” in terms of both its historic invisibility and its new visibility. The book forges links between contemporary “lived” experience and feminist cultural theory and research, often through the direct and autobiographical knowledge of the writers themselves. Divided into four sections – Cultural Herstories, Regulations and Transgressions, Problematic Postfeminists? and Divas and Dolls – plus a thought-provoking photo essay, it wrests the discourse of aging away from the twin hegemonies of consumer culture and gerontology to present a diverse selection of essays and positions. Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations establishes the long overlooked richness and the complexity of this field of study.

Author : Laura Hurd Clarke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442207615

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Facing Age by Laura Hurd Clarke Pdf

The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Although the women in the book express discontent about their aging visage, they also emphasize the importance of functional abilities and suggest that appearance becomes less central in later life. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted over a ten year period, Hurd Clarke brings alive feminist theories about aging, beauty work, femininity, and the body. The book also discusses medicine and the aging appearance, with interviews from medical providers and women about treatments such as Botox injections and injectable fillers. This book makes an important and timely contribution to the discussion of gendered ageism and older women's experiences of growing older in a youth-obsessed culture.

Author : Samantha Holland
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1859738087

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Alternative Femininities by Samantha Holland Pdf

Imagine a world where the oppressive, over-feminized images of women from advertising, television, films, and magazines have re-armed themselves with army boots, body modifications, and flamboyant hair. Is this just another fairy tale, and if so, why cant it be a reality? In Alternative Femininities, Samantha Holland unpacks the myth of model womanhood and considers how a particular group of real women define and practise femininity. These women, who see themselves as 'alternative', modify and subvert popular images of femininity. The choices they make in clothing, appearance and body modifications enable them to construct a personal look that is intimately tied to self-identity. Getting the balance right between over-femininity and not being feminine enough is a frequently voiced concern. Holland also addresses head-on the much-neglected issue of how ageing impacts on notions of femininity. What do these women think about fashion, gender and appearance as they grow older and less visible in our media-dominated society? Do they choose to tone down or stay out there, and what motivates their choice? A revealing look at contemporary femininity, Alternative Femininities gives voice to a previously silent group of women who struggle to resist sexist gender stereotypes, yet age with style, individuality and creativity. By looking at how real women negotiate self-image in an increasingly appearance-conscious society, Holland has provided a much-needed corrective to theoretical accounts of gender and femininity lacking in real data.

Author : Karl Kaser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030784126

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Femininities and Masculinities in the Digital Age by Karl Kaser Pdf

This book provides a fresh overview on the debate about the remarkable regression of gender equality in the Balkans and South Caucasus caused by the fall of socialism and by the revitalization of religion in Turkey. Contrary to the prevailing opinion of researchers who state continuous male domination, the book presents strong arguments for an alternative outlook. By contrasting the realia of gender relations with the utopia of new femininities and new masculinities driven by digital visual communication, the book provokingly concludes with the arrival of two utopias: the Marlboro Man – still authoritative but lonely – conquering and refusing family obligations; and with the emergence of a new femininity type – strong and beautiful. As such this book provides a great resource to anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, gender and media researchers and all those interested in feminist issues.

Author : Samantha Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119403603

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Alternative Femininities by Samantha Holland Pdf

Unpacking the myth of model womanhood, this book portrays a group of women who subvert the popular images of femininity. In the choices they make in clothing, appearance and body modifications, they are able to construct a personal look that is intimately tied to self-identity.

Author : Abigail T. Brooks
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814724057

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The Ways Women Age by Abigail T. Brooks Pdf

Set against the backdrop of commercialized medicine in the United States, the author investigates the anti-aging craze from the perspective of women themselves, examining the rapidly changing cultural attitudes, pressures, and expectations of female aging. The women's stories in this book are personal biographies that explore identity and body image and are reflexively shaped by beauty standards, expectations of femininity, and an increasingly normalized climate of cosmetic anti-aging intervention.

Author : Deborah Jermyn,Susan Holmes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137495129

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Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing by Deborah Jermyn,Susan Holmes Pdf

This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities.

Author : Niall Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Aging in motion pictures
ISBN : 178831669X

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Ageing Femininity on Screen by Niall Richardson Pdf

Author : R. Gill,C. Scharff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230294523

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New Femininities by R. Gill,C. Scharff Pdf

This collection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibilities for producing 'new' femininities in the twenty-first century. The volume includes a Preface by leading feminist scholar Angela McRobbie.

Author : Frida Furman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136785757

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Facing the Mirror by Frida Furman Pdf

This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible. These older, mostly Jewish women articulate their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring pertaining to their lives within and outside Julie's International Salon. This book explores the socio-moral significance of these experiences which reveals as much about society as about older women themselves. Women's narratives expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the ways women perceive reality, make choices and live in their worlds.

Author : V. Ylänne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137009340

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Representing Ageing by V. Ylänne Pdf

This collection critically examines twenty-first century representations of ageing, focusing on various media images and discourses as well as individuals' own experiences and self-presentations of ageing, drawing on innovative new empirical data.

Author : C. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780230246652

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Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880–1914 by C. Jones Pdf

Through the prism of gender, this text explores the contrasting cultures and practice of mathematics and science and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones assesses nineteenth-century ideas about women's intellect, femininity and masculinity, and assesses how these attitudes shaped women's experiences as students and practitioners.

Author : Donnalyn Pompper
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498519366

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Rhetoric of Femininity by Donnalyn Pompper Pdf

Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how femininity is made to mean by media and popular culture. Amplified are voices of women across multiple age, ethnic, and sexual orientation groups who shared in focus groups and interviews their perceptions of femininity and feminine ideals. Femininity is explored using theories from communication and mass media, psychology, sociology, and feminist and gender studies. Donnalyn Pompper explores femininities as shaped by cultural rituals and industries, at home and at work in organizations, on sporting fields and arenas, and in politics.

Author : Deborah Jermyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134924936

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Female Celebrity and Ageing by Deborah Jermyn Pdf

Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight interrogates the myriad ways in which celebrity culture constructs highly visible ideologies of femininity and ageing, and how ageing female celebrities have negotiated the media in a variety of industrial, historical and national contexts. In the era when the ‘baby boomers’ have started drawing their pensions, the boundaries of what constitutes ‘old age’ have never seemed more fluid, and ageing has never been presented by advertisers and marketers in a more dynamic fashion. However, the fact remains that ageing is still widely feared, and growing old is an inherently gendered process, in which ageing women are paradoxically both rendered invisible and subjected to damning scrutiny. Nowhere is this conflicting state of affairs more evident than in celebrity culture, where ageing female stars are praised for ‘growing old gracefully’ one moment, and condemned for ‘letting themselves go’ the next, when they fail to age ‘appropriately’. Examining a variety of themes and ageing women in the spotlight, from Barbara Stanwyck to Madonna to Charlotte Rampling, the essays collected here forge new critical and conceptual insights into how women grow older in the media, and the implications of this for what Susan Sontag memorably called "the double standard of ageing". This book is based on a special issue of Celebrity Studies.

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393322576

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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Pdf

The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.