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"It's a great benefit to have gray hair!" — The intersection of gender, aging, and visibility in midlife professional women's narratives
Author(s)	Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret
Journal title	Journal of Women and Aging, vol 29, no 3, 2017
Publisher	Taylor and Francis, 2017
Pages	pp 267-277
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Older women ; Middle aged ; Professional workers ; Managers ; Physical characteristics [elderly] ; Case studies ; Finland.
Annotation	Midlife professional women's ageing experiences, especially the experiences of changing physical appearance, are examined in this study. A discursive-narrative approach is used to analyse interviews of women working in senior professional and managerial jobs in Finland. The decline narrative is not enough to capture the experiences of these women; noticeable signs of ageing can indeed have a positive connotation. After looking older and less attractive (in a stereotypical sense), women are no longer being subjected to a sexualised gaze and are taken more seriously. Ageing opens up possibilities for "doing" gender differently and transcending rigid gender dichotomies and relationships. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-170630228 A
Classmark	BD: SE: T7: T6: BA: 69P: 76L
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