J. Brooks Bouson: Shame and the Aging Woman

Cover: 9783319811024 | Shame and the Aging Woman | J. Brooks Bouson | Taschenbuch | ix | 2018

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

J. Brooks Bouson is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, USA. She has published nine books, including Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women's Writings; Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison; Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother; and Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.

Zusammenfassung

Fills an important and overlooked scholarly gap that examines the cross section of ageism, shame, and gender

Discusses an impressive range of women writers and memoirists including Doris Lessing, A. S. Byatt, Penelope Lively, Carol Shields, and May Sarton

Brings together feminist theory, literary analysis, affect theory, feminist gerontology, and age studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 andSexual 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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	ix 212 S.
ISBN-13:	9783319811024
ISBN-10:	3319811029
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Bouson, J. Brooks
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2016
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	J. Brooks Bouson
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.04.2018
Gewicht:	0,296 kg

Artikel-ID: 114226327