Research Catalog

Title

Figuring age : women, bodies, generations / edited by Kathleen Woodward.

Publication

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

Woodward, Kathleen M.

Description

xxix, 362 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 23

Uniform Title

Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 23.

Subject

• Aging > Social aspects
• Feminist theory
• Middle-aged women > Social conditions
• Older women > Social conditions
• Women in mass media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The marks of time / Nancy K. Miller -- Aging and the scandal of anachronism / Mary Russo -- The other end of the fashion cycle / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- Little women / Teresa Mangum -- Incubabies and rejuvenates / Susan Squier -- Charcot's older women / Stephen Katz -- Social physics / Teresa Brennan -- Inventing generational models / Kathleen Woodward -- Trauma and aging / E. Ann Kaplan -- Not a jealous bone / Cecelia Condit -- Scary women / Vivian Sobchak -- Monster/beauty / Joanna Frueh -- Figure model series, 1991-1995 / Jacqueline Hayden -- Performing aging/performance crisis / Jodi Brooks -- Dolly descending a staircase / Anne Davis Basting -- Aging between the ears / Rachel Rosenthal -- Touching surfaces / Anca Cristofovici -- The well of wisdom / Marie-Claire Pasquier -- From anxiety to equanimity / Patricia Mellancamp -- Genealogy / Joanne M. Braxton -- Missing Alice / Susan Letzler Cole -- Making an exit / Elinor Fuchs.

ISBN

• 0253334500 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253212367 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98020184^

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Harvard Library