Aging as emasculation? Rethinking aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction

Armengol, Josep M.

doi:10.1080/00111619.2017.1386157

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“…It is ageing women's subordination in such a context that this article is primarily concerned with. However, it should be noted, that over the past 20 years, there has been an increased interest in exploring men's ageing (Armengol, 2018). Cultural and literary studies about ageing masculinities have been at the centre of this field.…”

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“…This is particularly true when women’s ageing processes are situated in a mainstream male culture in which many ageing men are still privileged by complex gender relations, while women are often subordinated (Jackson, 2016). It is ageing women’s subordination in such a context that this article is primarily concerned with. However, it should be noted, that over the past 20 years, there has been an increased interest in exploring men’s ageing (Armengol, 2018). Cultural and literary studies about ageing masculinities have been at the centre of this field.…”

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The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide

Liu

2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Women’s ageing processes raise important questions about the relationship between the body, the self, and society, but this topic has been widely ignored in Australian literature. The Australian Reifungsroman, through nuanced articulations of ageing women’s experiences of being doubly othered, shows itself to be a critical discourse that helps to break the cultural silence accorded to ageing women. This article aims to acknowledge the existence of the Reifungsroman in Australian literature while addressing questions around how this genre is employed in the Australian context, in order to actively engage with the topic of women’s ageing. Drawing on literary gerontology, this article examines Australian novelist Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection (2000) and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide (1999) from a feminist perspective, focusing on the literary representations of ageing women offered by these novels. In so doing, this article contends that the Australian Reifungsroman unsettles the dominant ideas about women’s ageing as negative and declining. Indeed, narratives such as these help to articulate ageing women’s agency by reconstructing new images of older womanhood.

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The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide

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2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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“…De Beauvoir’s (1972) seminal work argued that women experience ageing as more painful than men, and more recently, Segal (2013: 13) argued that ‘it is women who have often reported a very specific horror of ageing’, which reflects the cultural obsession with the ‘perfect woman’ as one that is young. This is not to say that men do not experience ageing as painful (especially, e.g., when it comes to loss of independence, as highlighted by Armengol (2017)), but rather that there is a stronger cultural tendency to associate ageing in women with a decrease in physical attractiveness and intimate desirability. Since physical intimacy is often an important aspect of intimate partnerships (Condry, 2007), it is important we explore how female partners of long-term prisoners experienced the passage of time and their own ageing when they are unable to engage in physical intimacy due to conjugal visits not being permitted in UK prisons.…”

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‘Time … lost time’: Exploring how partners of long-term prisoners experience the temporal pains of imprisonment

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2018

Time & Society

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This article identifies and examines the temporal pains of imprisonment as experienced by female partners of male long-term prisoners in the UK. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 33 women, it discusses how long sentences interrupted the women's normative life courses, shaped their daily lives, and resulted in them having to negotiate living within both prison time and outside time. It also highlights the need to go beyond the focus on concentrated family time and consider the extent to which prisoners and their families are deprived of mundane but meaningful family moments. In exploring these temporal pains of imprisonment, it is argued that time is not just a critical aspect of a long-term prisoner's sentence, but also of his partner's experiences. Finally, this article seeks to take the scholarship beyond the assumption that a long-term prisoner's partner exists in a temporal limbo, and discusses the processes of change and adaptation the women interviewed used to cope with their partners' long sentences.

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Geographies of Aging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent” and Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex

Hardy

2021

Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

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Aging as emasculation? Rethinking aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide

The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide

‘Time … lost time’: Exploring how partners of long-term prisoners experience the temporal pains of imprisonment

Geographies of Aging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent” and Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex

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