Shame and the Aging Woman
Subtitle: Confronting and Resisting Ageism in Contemporary Women's Writings
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9783319317113
Subjects: Ageism; Shame; Criticism
Description: "This work 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"--Cover.