Clothes are central to the ways older bodies are experienced, presented and understood
within culture, so that dress forms a significant, though neglected, element in the constitution …

Fashion and age sit uncomfortably together. Fashion inhabits a world of youthful beauty, of
fantasy, imagination, allure. Its discourses are frenetic and frothy; its images glamorous and …

This discourse analytic study shows how 10 older women, who exercise regularly or attend
the University of the Third Age, adjust to the ageing body in theireveryday talk'through taking …

This article addresses the role played by clothing and fashion in the constitution of age,
exploring the changing ways in which aging is experienced, understood, and imagined in …

This article begins by contextualizing the author's experience as an aging femme trying to
locate herself in relation to the representation of the femme as lesbianism's “bad girl.” From …

2000-luvun Suomessa käydään intensiivistä julkista keskustelua ikääntymisestä.
Keskustelussa on ollut tavanomaista pohtia yhtäältä ikääntyneen väestön määrän kasvun …

Bodily display and self-awareness are generally mediated by restrictive ideologies of
youthful beauty.'How do I look?'is therefore a salient question in terms of personal ageing …

In this article I outline the influences, intellectual and personal, that have led me to the
subject of dress and age, a topic that I have explored with great enjoyment over the last …

Clothes lie at the interface between the body and its social presentation, one of the ways
whereby bodies are made social, given identity and meaning. Dress thus needs to be …

For several decades now, the incidental category of 'woman'has been systematically
analysed through a pluralistic lens where race, class, and sexuality have cohesively …