scholarly journals Disrupting Temporalities, Multiplying the Self: An Age-Studies Approach to Two Contemporary Plays

2021 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Núria Casado-Gual ◽  
Inesa Shevchenko-Hotsuliak
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The Self ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Age Studies

In our increasingly aged societies, old age continues to be equated with decline (Gullette 2004) and becomes the source of the most invisible yet persistent forms of discrimination, namely, ageism (Butler 1969). Even though theatre, like other artistic forms, has traditionally promoted a negative image of ageing (Mangan 2013), some contemporary plays have begun to favour more complex portrayals of old age. Nevertheless, when considered from a gender-based angle, these portrayals often acquire quite a problematic undertone: while roles for older female actors remain exceptional, many peripheral or, if centred, mainly problematic dramatizations of ageing femininity in the theatre arena fuel age prejudice against older women on and off stage. This article offers an age-focused analysis of two plays that counteract stereotypical images of female ageing through various dramaturgical strategies: Michel Tremblay’s Albertine in Five Times (1984) and Matt Hartley’s Here I Belong (2016). Through a comparative analysis of the Naturalistic and Non-Naturalistic devices employed in the two plays, and the examination of the meanings of age generated by the characterization of the two female protagonists, we hope to demonstrate that Tremblay’s and Hartley’s texts contribute to creating a truly anti-ageist theatre while at the same time enhancing the visibility of the older woman on the stage.

Old Age, Women, and Dynamic Psychotherapy

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Sandra Evans ◽  
Jane Garner
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Dynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
The Arts

Old age can be a challenging time for people. It brings with it changes which include losses as well as opportunities for shifting one’s focus. Societal perceptions of ageing and projections of negative values associated with being old can act as a further blow to peoples’ general resilience. This chapter explores some of these societal projections over the centuries, in public and political life and in the arts. It examines how these influences may impact on women personally as we get older, including how we become ill psychologically and how we react to illness. What the authors consider to be important is that in late life, opportunities for restoration of the self still exist. People can and do recover from mental illness and older women can and do contribute to the wider social world in ways other than as mothers and carers.

Dowagers, Debs, Nuns and Babies: The Politics of Nostalgia and the Older Woman in the British Sunday Night Television Serial

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estella Tincknell
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Mature Female ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Popular Television

The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011–12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010–) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012–), has appeared to consolidate the recent resurgence of the period drama during the 1990s and 2000s, as well as reassembling something like a mass audience for woman-centred realist narratives at a time when the fracturing and disassembling of such audiences seemed axiomatic. While ostensibly different in content, style and focus, the two programmes share a number of distinctive features, including a range of mature female characters who are sufficiently well drawn and socially diverse as to offer a profoundly pleasurable experience for the female viewer seeking representations of aging femininity that go beyond the sexualised body of the ‘successful ager’. Equally importantly, these two programmes present compelling examples of the ‘conjunctural text’, which appears at a moment of intense political polarisation, marking struggles over consent to a contemporary political position by re-presenting the past. Because both programmes foreground older women as crucial figures in their respective communities, but offer very different versions of the social role and ideological positioning that this entails, the underlying politics of such nostalgia becomes apparent. A critical analysis of these two versions of Britain's past thus highlights the ideological investments involved in period drama and the extent to which this ‘cosy’ genre may legitimate or challenge contemporary political claims.

Issues in Research on the Older Woman of Color

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Mindel ◽  
Barbara L. Kail
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Conducting Research

The difficulties of conducting research on minority group older women have not been considered by those in the field of non-compliance. Methodologists have long discussed the issues of doing research on compliance and those of doing research in minority communities. We attempt to integrate these two themes and suggest how the concerns described can be incorporated into our practice and assessment of research.

scholarly journals HIV MADE ME STRONGER: CONCEPTIONS OF SUCCESSFUL AGING AMONG OLDER WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S765-S765
Author(s):  
Anna A Rubtsova ◽  
Tonya Taylor ◽  
Gina Wingood ◽  
Igho Ofotokun ◽  
Deborah Gustafson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Stable Phase ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Women Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv

Abstract Little is known about successful aging (SA) among older (50+) women living with HIV (OWLH). Therefore, the purpose of this qualitative study was to examine subjective understandings of SA among OWLH. Participants were OWLH enrolled in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) and those not enrolled in WIHS: 8 in Atlanta, GA (3 WIHS and 5 non-WIHS) and 9 in Brooklyn, NY (6 WIHS and 3 non-WIHS). Semi-structured interviews ranged from 30 to 120 minutes. Several themes emerged in participants’ definitions of SA, e.g. self-care, taking HIV medications, and being resilient (“HIV made me stronger”). Both WIHS and non-WIHS participants emphasized life course perspective in their definitions of SA -- women viewed their aging successful as a more stable phase of life in contrast to hardships they experienced while being younger (e.g., drug use, incarceration). Data collection efforts are ongoing and will allow further characterization of SA among this population.

Estimating the shape and size of supramolecular assemblies by variable temperature diffusion ordered spectroscopy

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (40) ◽  
pp. 7932-7936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin M. Schulze ◽  
Davita L. Watkins ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Ion Ghiviriga ◽  
Ronald K. Castellano
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Variable Temperature ◽  
Supramolecular Assemblies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Conjugated Oligomers ◽  
Photovoltaic Devices ◽  
Temperature Diffusion ◽  
Shape And Size

Reported is characterization of the self-assembly of π-conjugated oligomers, molecules studied recently in photovoltaic devices, using variable temperature diffusion ordered spectroscopy; the approach has allowed estimation of assembly size, shape, and molecularity.

The Self-assembly, Characterization of Hepatocytes on Nano-sized Gold Colloid and Construction of Cellular Biosensor

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 934-935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Ying Gu ◽  
Rong-Xiao Sa ◽  
Su-Su Yuan ◽  
Hong-Yuan Chen ◽  
Ai-Min Yu
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
The Self ◽  
Gold Colloid
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