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From Old Woman to Older Women
Sally Chivers
其他書名
Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives
出版Ohio State University Press, 2003
主題Literary Criticism / CanadianLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women
ISBN08142093519780814209356
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ryOuIzKIbOcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Sally Chivers provides a fascinating look at and challenge to how North American popular culture has portrayed old age as a time of disease, decline, and death. Within contemporary Canadian literary and film production, a tradition of articulate central elderly female characters challenges what the aging body has come to signify in a broader cultural context. Rather than seek positive images of aging, which can do their own prescriptive damage the author focuses on constructive depictions that provide a basis on which to create new stories and readings of growing old. This type of humanities approach to the study of aging promises neither to fixate on nor avoid consideration of the role of the body in the much broader process of getting older. The progression implied in the title from the solitary symbol of The Old Woman toward a community of older women, indicates not a move toward euphemism, but rather an increasing and necessary awareness of the social and cultural dimensions of aging."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved