Performing youth

Ageing, Ambiguity and Bodily Integrity

Bibliographic Data

ID3040757
AuthorsElisabeth Schwaiger (Murdoch University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume15
Issue2
Pages273-284
Publication date2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Identities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13504630902778768
OpenAlexW2015886383
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited22

This paper addresses the relationship between ageing, gender, cultural norms, and the constitution of gendered body-subjects. It briefly discusses three conceptual approaches which have been used to understand ageing, gendered body-subjects: postmodernist/social constructionist, psychoanalytic, and poststructuralist feminist. It is argued that the first two approaches are entrenched in dualistic modes of thinking, and therefore can never construct ageing gendered body subjects as other than through the dualistic discourse of decline and cultural devaluation in Western consumer cultures. The third, however, appears to hold some promise for a more just and flexible way of accounting for the integrity of, and culturally valuing, the gendered body-subject in old age. Examples from writings on dance are used to illustrate this argument

Ambiguity · Constitution · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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