“Older-wiser-lesbians” and “baby-dykes”: mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema

Krainitzki, Eva L

doi:10.1080/14680777.2016.1193294

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“…The linear progress narrative leaves little space for intergenerationality. Moreover, the generational understanding of progress in gender/sexuality scholarship and the youth-centric understanding of queerness disseminated through representations in popular media (Krainitzki, 2016) leads to the construction of generational divides. In accordance with Siverskog (2015), we argue that queer and post-feminist discourses link sexuality/gender notions to youth and able-bodiedness and distance themselves from a feminist and lesbian past that should supposedly be forgotten and left behind.…”

Section: Ageist Interpellation and Transgenerational Continuitymentioning

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From allochronism to generationality: Ageism in queer communities in Belgium

2023

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This paper looks into ageist and generationalist assumptions that penetrate queer spatio-temporal imageries and explore how to resist oppressive temporalities. It draws on fieldwork in a queer advocacy group and qualitative interviews with trans-, lesbian-, and women-identifying participants in Belgium to explore notions of age and ageism in queer communities. The research relates to feminist generationalism and searches for more complex notions of generationality that complicate the idea of horizontal generations or waves succeeding each other in progressive time. We address the conflicts and dissimilarities across the generational divide to question and trouble the viability of allochronic categorizations in feminist queer movements.

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Section: Ageist Interpellation and Transgenerational Continuitymentioning

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From allochronism to generationality: Ageism in queer communities in Belgium

2023

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“…For men too, successful aging appears to have become synonymous with the continuing performance of sexuality traditionally more common to youthful representations [26,27]. This attention to the intersections of age, gender and sexuality in representations of successful aging has been extended by work focusing on the heteronormativity of successful aging and its 'others' [5,28,29]. While mapping the exclusion and/or marginalization of non-heterosexual and transgendered representations is an important endeavor, this needs to be extended to a critique of the ways that heteronormativity and its promises of happiness constitute a powerful narrative that organizes dominant understandings of the good (later) life.…”

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Queering Aging Futures

Sandberg

Marshall

2017

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This paper explores the potential for cultural gerontology to extend its ideas of diversity in aging experiences by opening space to rethink conceptions of successful aging futures. We propose a 'queering' of aging futures that disrupts the ways that expectations of a good later life and happy aging are seen to adhere to some bodies and subjectivities over others. Drawing on feminist, queer, and crip theories, we build on existing critiques of 'successful aging' to interrogate the assumptions of heteronormativity, able-bodiedness and able-mindedness that shape the dividing lines between success and failure in aging, and which inform attempts to 'repair' damaged futures. Conclusions suggest that recognizing diversity in successful aging futures is important in shaping responses to the challenges of aging societies, and presents an opportunity for critical cultural gerontology to join with its theoretical allies in imagining more inclusive alternatives.

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“…This involves normative beliefs on whether older women should still have sex, the types of sex and sexual desires valued, and how their life paths should unfold (Katz and Marshall, 2004). Those who are queer, disabled, or cannot keep up with the demands of anti-ageing are considered bad, abject, failed, or unsuccessful (Sandberg, 2008) and portrayed in media as unhappy, depressed and miserable (Krainitzki, 2015(Krainitzki, , 2016.…”

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Creating a patchwork of unruliness: the grumpy old woman as affect alien

Vuyst¹

2022

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Narratives on ageing are deeply entangled with discourses on happiness. This article draws on Sara Ahmed’s critique on the disciplinary dynamics of the promise of happiness to explore how happiness scripts make certain ‘happy objects’ such as beauty aspirations, sexual desires, and life choices seen as ‘right’ for older women and others as ‘wrong’. My aim is to contribute to new feminist theorisations of women’s ageing by exploring the unhappy archives of older women and looking for ways in which normative happiness scripts are challenged, destabilised and rewritten. Articulations of resistance are found through interpretative engagement with representations of older women who feel alienated by the ‘right’ happy objects, deliberately make ‘wrong’ object choices or turn the ‘right’ happy objects into tools to dismantle ageist, sexist and heteronormative structures. These resistance strategies come together in my theorising of the grumpy old woman as affect alien and a patchwork of unruliness.

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“Older-wiser-lesbians” and “baby-dykes”: mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

From allochronism to generationality: Ageism in queer communities in Belgium

From allochronism to generationality: Ageism in queer communities in Belgium

Queering Aging Futures

Creating a patchwork of unruliness: the grumpy old woman as affect alien

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