Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture

<div>1. Introduction;&nbsp;Cathy McGlynn, Margaret O’Neill & Michaela Schrage-Früh.- Part&nbsp;I: NARRATIVES OF AGEING.-&nbsp;2. Making the Invisible Visible: The Presence of Older Women Artists in Early Modern Artistic Biography;&nbsp;Julia K. Dabbs.-&nbsp;3. Losing One’s Self: The Depiction of Female Dementia Sufferers in Iris (2001) and The Iron Lady (2011);&nbsp;Eva Adelseck.-&nbsp;4. “Embarking, Not Dying”: Clare Boylan’s Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman;&nbsp;Michaela Schrage-Früh.-&nbsp;5. Intersection, Interoception and Interruption: The Age Performances of Peggy Shaw;&nbsp;Bridie Moore.-&nbsp;II: SOCIAL ROLES: MOTHERS, WIDOWS, SPINSTERS.-&nbsp;6. Closing In: Spatial Restrictions for Ageing Mothers in Jane Austen;&nbsp;Amber Jones.-&nbsp;7. “No One Noticed Her”: Ageing Spinsters and Youth Culture in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Short Stories;&nbsp;Cathy McGlynn.-&nbsp;8. Stories of Motherhood and Ageing in ABC’s Television Programme Once Upon a Time;&nbsp;Katherine Whitehurst.-&nbsp;9. “She Says She’s Thirty-Five but She’s Really Fifty-One”: Rebranding the Middle-Aged Postfeminist Protagonist in Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones: Mad about The Boy;&nbsp;Lucinda Rasmussen.- Part&nbsp;III: THE BODY AND EMBODIMENT;&nbsp;10. Older Women and Sexuality On-Screen: Euphemism and Evasion?;&nbsp;Susan Liddy.-&nbsp;11. A Certain Truth in Fiction: Perceptions of the Ageing Process in Irish Women’s Fiction;&nbsp;Theresa Wray.-12. Future and Present Imaginaries: The Politics of the Ageing Female Body in Lena Dunham’s Girls (HB0, 2012 – present);&nbsp;Ros Jennings and Hannah Grist.-13. The New Model Subject: ‘Coolness’ and the Turn to Older Women Models in Lifestyle and Fashion Advertising.-&nbsp;Deborah Jermyn and Anne Jerslev.-&nbsp;14. Performances of Situated Knowledge in the Ageing Female Body;&nbsp;EL Putnam.- Part&nbsp;IV: CLASS, RACE AND AGENCY.-&nbsp;15. “I Become Shameless as a Child”: Childhood, Femininity and Older Age in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron;&nbsp;AntoinettePretorius.-16. African American Humour and the Construction of a Mature Female Middle-Class Identity in Clarence Major’s Such Was the Season;&nbsp;Saskia Marguerita Fürst.-17. “This is How Time Unfolds When You Are Old”: Ageing, Subjectivity and Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light;&nbsp;Margaret O’Neill.-&nbsp;18. The Visibility of Women’s Ageing and Agency in Suzanne Lacy’s The Crystal Quilt (1987) and Silver Action (2013);&nbsp;Kate Antosik-Parsons. 19. Afterword; Germaine Greer.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>