Narratives of Old Age and Gender: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Siân Adiseshiah, Amy Culley and Jonathon Shears, posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, in 2023

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Introduction: Narratives of Old Age and Gender: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives
Siân Adiseshiah, Amy Culley and Jonathon Shears
Journal of the British Academy
, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 1-10, posted 10 August 2023

PART ONE: Conceptualising Gendered Old Age

Gendered Narratives of Ageing in Britain since 1900
Pat Thane
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 13-32, posted 10 August 2023

Old Age, Gender and Constructions of the Contemporary
Siân Adiseshiah
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 33-54, posted 10 August 2023

Reflections on the Intersectionality of Gender and Ageing in the Middle East
Shereen Hussein
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 55-70, posted 10 August 2023

PART TWO: Reimagining Ageing

‘How to Grow Old Gracefully’: Advice, Authority and the Mentor in Women’s Late Life Writing
Amy Culley
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 73-94, posted 10 August 2023

‘Thou Breath of Autumn’s Being’: Voicing Masculinity in the Poetry of Late Life
Jonathon Shears
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 95-116, posted 10 August 2023

Queering Time, Ageing and Relationships with Split Britches
Jen Harvie
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 117-146, posted 10 August 2023

The Power of Graphic Narrative for Dementia Stories: Trauma, Aesthetics, and Resilience in Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles (2012) and Dana Warath’s Aliceheimer’s (2013)
E. Ann Kaplan
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 147-166, posted 10 August 2023

PART THREE: Creative Ageing

Older Women Rock!
Leah Thorn
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 169-196, posted 10 August 2023

‘Hope Appeared Like a Flash’: A Performance-Research Narrative of Passages Theatre Group
Bridie Moore
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 197-220, posted 10 August 2023

PART FOUR: Ageing Now

The Gender Gap in Pensions: How Policies Continue to Fail Women
Jay Ginn and Liam Foster
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 223-242, posted 10 August 2023

Interview with Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director, Age UK
Caroline Abrahams
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 243-256, posted 10 August 2023

Coda: Tackling the Gendered Dynamics of Ageism
Lynne Segal
Journal of the British Academy, volume 11, supplementary issue 2, pp. 257-266, posted 10 August 2023

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