Successful female aging for beginners
Carolyn Heilbrun/Amanda Cross and perspectives of gendered aging inThe Players Come Again
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3620685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Domínguez-Rué (0000-0002-9718-0110, Universitat de Lleida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-110 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09589236.2014.916202 |
| OpenAlex | W2084707647 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Although Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1926–2003) is best known for her best-selling mystery novels, published under the pseudonym of Amanda Cross, she also authored remarkable pieces of non-fiction which evidence an intense reflection upon female aging as well as her long-standing commitment to feminism. Works such as Reinventing Womanhood (1979), The Representation of Women in Fiction (1983), Writing a Woman's Life (1988), and The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty (1997) explore the ways in which women in general and the author in particular experience the changes that maturity involves as an enriching process rather than as a path into decay and loss. This paper contends that these might perhaps shed a new light into her fiction as Amanda Cross, which includes The Players Come Again (1990). Taking her essays in feminism and literary criticism as a basis, my aim was to reveal the extent to which Heilbrun's commercial mystery novels represented a springboard to the theories she put forward in her essays, which vindicated the difficulties as well as the joys involved in a gendered experience of aging
Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Developmental psychology · Femininity · Feminism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Pseudonym · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Highly cited | No |
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