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Representing self-representing ageing
— look at me! Images of women and ageing | | Author(s) | Lorna Warren, Merryn Gott, Susan Hogan |
| Corporate Author | New Dynamics of Ageing Programme - NDA; Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield |
| Publisher | New Dynamics of Ageing - NDA, Sheffield, 2011 |
| Pages | 8 pp (NDA Findings 10) |
| Source | NDA Research Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Older women ; Personality ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Projects ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | The Representing self-representing ageing (RSRA) project aimed to involve older women in the creation of visual images, equipping them with a novel means of challenging persistent media stereotyping and invisibility. Participants captured various experiences from continued public involvement, friendships and fun to fears of increasing limitations and invisibility. Images challenged stereotypes such as the 'grumpy old woman' and reflected rarely represented grief and loss. Participants wanted to see more images of 'ordinary' older women who were still 'making a contribution'. Images produced by participants showed that women experience ageing at the site of the body, for example in the form of wrinkles and greying hair. Participatory visual methods gave women a sense of solidarity and ownership of the research process, engendering well-being and a feeling of public validation. Women in their 50s and 60s felt more pressure from media and advertising imagery compared with participants in their 80s and 90s. 88% of visitors to the project exhibitions wanted to see more images of older women, like those created through the project, displayed in public. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120914207 P |
| Classmark | BD: DK: TOB: 3E: 3A:6KC * |
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