Overview
- Analyses the interactions between commercial discourse and the private experiences of women's ageing
- Sheds fresh light on the intersection between gender and ageing: on how older people, and women in particular, ‘do’ gender
- Examines case studies of high-profile ageing women who have broken the mould of public expectations
- Employs a range of linguistic methods, including critical discourse analysis, appraisal theory and multimodal analysis
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Keywords
- sociolinguistics
- gender studies
- appraisal theory
- multimodal analysis
- critical discourse analysis
- gerontology
- feminism
- lifecourse
- lifestyle media
- advertising
- beauty
- public discourse
- personal narratives
- language and identity
- language ideology
- consumerism
- femininity
- the mirror moment
- cultural narrative
- health studies
- language and gender
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Book Title: Discourses of Ageing and Gender
Book Subtitle: The Impact of Public and Private Voices on the Identity of Ageing Women
Authors: Clare Anderson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96740-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96739-4Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07239-1Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96740-0Published: 25 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 275
Topics: Language and Gender, Culture and Gender, Aging, Discourse Analysis, Feminism, Women's Studies