1st Edition
Women and Ageing Private Meaning, Social Lives
Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives
Margaret O’Neill and Michaela Schrage-Früh
1. Contemplation as Resistance to Ageism, and Its Historical Context: Mexican Writers Carmen Boullosa, Guadalupe Nettel, and María Rivera
Emily Hind
2. Ageing, Creativity, and Memory: The Evolution of Erica Jong’s Literary Career
Ieva Stončikaitė
3. From Girl to Grotesque: Exploring the Intersection of Ageing, Illness, and Agency in Auto/biographical Narratives about Seventies Icon Farrah Fawcett
Lucinda Rasmussen
4. "A View from Old Age": Women’s Lives as Narrated Through Objects
Leonie Hannon, Gemma Carney, Paula Devine and Gemma Hodge
5. Reading Film with Age Through Collaborative Autoethnography: Old Age and Care, Encounters with Amour (Haneke, 2012), Chronic (Franco, 2015) and A Woman’s Tale (Cox, 1991)
Rita Ferris-Taylor, Jane Grant, Hannah Grist, Ros Jennings, Rina Rosselson and Sylvia Wiseman
6. Grace and Grit: The Politics, Poetics and Performance of Ageing as a Woman
Ann Webster-Wright
7. Writing Life and Death Online: "I’m Not Sure How Many More Days I’ll Have on the Computer"
Cathy Fowley
8. Now that I’m Old: Life Writing, Women and Ageing
Elisabeth Hanscombe
Biography
Margaret O’Neill researches in twentieth-century and contemporary Irish literature, culture and society. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway. With Michaela Schrage-Früh she is co-founder of the Women and Ageing Research Network.
Michaela Schrage-Früh is a Lecturer in German at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published widely on Irish, British and German poetry and fiction, and is the author of two monographs. With Margaret O’Neill she is co-founder of the Women and Ageing Research Network.
