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Shame and the Aging Woman [electronic resource] : Confronting and Resisting Ageism in Contemporary Women's Writings / by J. Brooks Bouson.

Bouson, J. Brooks, author.
2016
PN695-PN779
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Title
Shame and the Aging Woman [electronic resource] : Confronting and Resisting Ageism in Contemporary Women's Writings / by J. Brooks Bouson.
Author
Bouson, J. Brooks, author.
ISBN
9783319317113
3319317113
9783319317106
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31711-3.
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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English
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1 online resource (IX, 212 pages) : online resource.
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10.1007/978-3-319-31711-3. doi
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PN695-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification
809
Summary
This book brings together the research findings of contemporary feminist age studies scholars, shame theorists, and feminist gerontologists in order to unfurl the affective dynamics of gendered ageism. In her analysis of what she calls "embodied shame," J. Brooks Bouson describes older women's shame about the visible signs of aging and the health and appearance of their bodies as they undergo the normal processes of bodily aging. Examining both fictional and nonfiction works by contemporary North American and British women authors, this book offers a sustained analysis of the various ways that ageism devalues and damages the identities of otherwise psychologically healthy women in our graying culture. Shame theory, as Bouson shows, astutely explains why gendered ageism is so deeply entrenched in our culture and why even aging feminists may succumb to this distressing, but sometimes hidden, cultural affliction.
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Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism.
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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.

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