Table of Contents
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