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Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.
How do older women use art and media to resist ageist and sexist norms that regulate their intimacy and sexuality?
This book brings the subversive aesthetic strategies of older women to the forefront, using the concept of ‘unruliness’, understood as a failure or unwillingness to conform.
Drawing on critical age studies, feminist theory and allied critical approaches, the book develops a new conceptual model that positions ageing women’s aesthetic interventions as a source of insight and social change.
Combining theory with close readings of art and media, this book is a bold framework for rethinking ageing, sexuality and empowerment.
Katrien De Graeve is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and PI of the ERC-funded project Later-in-Life Intimacies (LiLI) at Ghent University.
Giulia Nazzaro is an anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher in the LiLI project at Ghent University.
Introduction
1. Early Midlife Re-Sisters
2. Wise, Wild or Bewildered: Midlife Narratives of Passage
3. From Menopausal Misery Talk to Collective Parrhesia
4. Picturing Sex, Imagining Truth: Older Women Artists at Work
Conclusion