While the mental and emotional impacts of trauma have been well documented, the
research concerning trauma and body image is largely focused on childhood sexual abuse …

In this article, female identity is explored through an analysis of the lived body experience of
domestic violence survivors. Qualitative interviews focused on the conceptual relationships …

This paper presents and analyzes findings from unstructured interviews with women aged
61 to 92 regarding their perceptions and feelings about their aging bodies. The data are …

In her poem I Met a Woman Who Wasn't There, Marge Piercy (2006) described a common
sensation experienced by midlife women: the transition from visibility to invisibility. In …

Research on body image and older women has grown in the past decade. However, there is
a gap in the literature regarding body image, older women, and countertransference. This …

We conducted a qualitative study of 1,849 women over age 50 to capture the thoughts,
feelings, and attitudes that women at middle age have about their bodies and the …

Health norms have changed over the past three decades, imposing more responsibility for
health onto the individual. There are gendered implications of these changes which, when …

Body-image research has focused on younger women and girls, and tended to ignore
women in later life, although recent studies have called for more research into the body …

Women's bodies at every age are expressions of self and culture. In a culture that values
slender, taut-skinned youth, the embodied selves of postmenopausal women are dismissed …

Postfeminist young women are encouraged to “embrace” their sexuality by sexualizing their
bodies as a means of empowerment. In stark contrast, dominant understandings of violence …