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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12995245.
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-113) and index.".
- catalog description "Old age, literature, and potential -- Situating old women : fields of inquiry -- The mirror has two faces : Simone de Beauvoir's and Margaret Laurence's ambivalent representations -- Generation gaps and the potential of grandmotherhood -- "Here, every minute is ninety seconds" : fictional perspectives on nursing home care -- "Living life seriatim" : friendship and interdependence in late-life fiction and semifiction.".
- catalog extent "xlvii, 119 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "From old woman to older women.".
- catalog identifier "0814209351 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "From old woman to older women.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2003.".
- catalog relation "From old woman to older women.".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog subject "813/.5093520565 21".
- catalog subject "Canadian fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Canadian fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Old age in literature.".
- catalog subject "Older women in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR9188 .C47 2003".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Canada History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Old age, literature, and potential -- Situating old women : fields of inquiry -- The mirror has two faces : Simone de Beauvoir's and Margaret Laurence's ambivalent representations -- Generation gaps and the potential of grandmotherhood -- "Here, every minute is ninety seconds" : fictional perspectives on nursing home care -- "Living life seriatim" : friendship and interdependence in late-life fiction and semifiction.".
- catalog title "From old woman to older women : contemporary culture and women's narratives / Sally Chivers.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".