Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations
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Figuring Age poses the crucial question of how women are aged by culture. How are older women represented in a visual culture that is dominated by images of youth in television, film, and life performance? To what extent is aging a culturally induced trauma?
IntroductionOpening the SubjectThe Marks of Time3Aging and the Scandal of Anachronism20The Other End of the Fashion Cycle: Practicing Loss, Learning Decline34Historicizing AgeLittle Women: The Aging Female Character in Nineteenth-Century British Children's Literature59Incubables and Rejuvenates: The Traffic between Technologies of Reproduction and Age-Extension88Charcot's Older Women: Bodies of Knowledge at the Interface of Aging Studies and Women's Studies112Psychoanalytic Theory and AgingSocial Physics: Inertia, Energy, and Aging131Inventing Generational Models: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Literature149Visualizing Age, Performing AgeTrauma and Aging: Marlene Dietrich, Melanie Klein, and Marguerite Duras171Not a Jealous Bone195Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery, and Special Effects200Monster/Beauty: Midlife Bodybuilding as Aesthetic Discipline212Figure Model Series, 1991-1995227Performing Aging/Performance Crisis (for Norma Desmond, Baby Jane, Margo Channing, Sister George - and Myrtle)232Dolly Descending a Staircase: Stardom, Age, and Gender in Times Square248Aging between the Ears264Touching Surfaces: Photography, Aging, and an Aesthetics of Change268Family PortraitsThe Well of Wisdom: The Love of Older Women among French Lesbians297From Anxiety to Equanimity: Crisis and Generational Continuity on TV, at the Movies, in Life, in Death310Genealogy329Missing Alice: In Search of a Mother's Voice336Making an Exit340Notes on Contributors349Index353
