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020 $a0814209351 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPR9188$b.C47 2003
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100 1 $aChivers, Sally,$d1972-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003033567
245 10 $aFrom old woman to older women :$bcontemporary culture and women's narratives /$cSally Chivers.
260 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press, c2003
300 $axlvii, 119 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 107-113) and index.
505 00 $tPreface: Old Age, Literature, and Potential -- $tIntroduction: Situating Old Women: Fields of Inquiry -- $gCh. 1.$tThe Mirror Has Two Faces: Simone de Beauvoir's and Margaret Laurence's Ambivalent Representations -- $gCh. 2.$tGeneration Gaps and the Potential of Grandmotherhood -- $gCh. 3.$t"Here, Every Minute Is Ninety Seconds": Fictional Perspectives on Nursing Home Care -- $gCh. 4.$t"Living Life Seriatim": Friendship and Interdependence in Late-Life Fiction and Semifiction.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCanadian fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118216
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113573
650 0 $aCanadian fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100039
650 0 $aOlder women in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93007979
650 0 $aOld age in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85094516
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR9188$i.C47 2003
852 00 $bbar$hPR9188$i.C47 2003