1st Edition
Ageing Identities and Women’s Everyday Talk in a Hair Salon
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Ageing in society and in interaction
Chapter 2 Researching identities in a hair salon
Chapter 3 Ageing: Manoeuvring around decline
Chapter 4 Not only old: Negotiating ageing in salon talk
Chapter 5 First impressions
Chapter 6 Negotiating stances to appearance
Chapter 7 Ageing well in stories of daily life
Chapter 8 Being more than ‘older women’
Chapter 9 Looking back, looking forward
References
Index
Biography
Rachel Heinrichsmeier is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. Her research focusses on identity construction in interaction, particularly older-age, gender and institutional identities, and combines a conversation analytic-informed discourse analysis with ethnographic methods.
"This inspiring book, full of living narratives of older women, invites readers to think critically about ageing against a background of increasing longevity." - Jing Wu, University of Gothenburg, Ageing and Society
"[This book] makes a convincing case for approaching ageing and age identity as contextual, co-constructed by participants, and as intersecting with other aspects of our identities...I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in talk and (age) identity constructions, women and ageing, or the application of CA/MCA/IS on talk and interaction." - Virpi Ylänne, Cardiff University, Journal of Pragmatics
