Feminism, Eros, and the Coming of Age

Rubenstein, Roberta

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“…In 1999 , Woodward wrote of the need for “generational consciousness of older women” (p. 163). Feminist scholarship and activism had been open to the criticism that aging was not an issue until the feminists of the 1960s and 1970s themselves grew old ( Brennan, 2005 ; Rubenstein, 2001 ), even if it has since begun to address the topic in a substantial critical literature. Rather than wait for younger women to grow older and age into an awareness of the particular intersections of gender with age, the experience of adaptation involved in creating My Turn Now offers hope for what Purvis refers to as the “challenges” of intergenerational feminism ( 2004 ), in which a more critical stance on normalized power relations is created, along with the capacity to disrupt those relations with new accounts and vision of aging ( Jones, 2022 ), It is important then, to explore how feminism can act as such as instigator of change if we think in intergenerational terms.…”

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Aging as Adaptation

2023

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In traditional gerontological terms, adaptation is usually understood as the production of physical aids to mitigate the impairment effects caused by age-related disabilities, or as those alterations organisations need to make under the concept of reasonable adjustment to prevent age discrimination (in the UK, for example, age has been a protected characteristic under the Equality Act since 2010). This article will be the first to examine ageing in relation to theories of adaptation within cultural studies and the humanities. It is thus an interdisciplinary intervention within the field of cultural gerontology and cultural theories of adaptation. Adaptation studies in cultural studies and the humanities have moved away from fidelity criticism (the issue of how faithful an adaptation is to its original) towards thinking of adaptation as a creative, improvisational space. We ask if theories of adaptation as understood within cultural studies and the humanities can help us develop a more productive and creative way of conceptualising the ageing process, which reframes ageing in terms of transformational and collaborative adaptation. Moreover, for women in particular, this process of adaptation involves engagement with ideas of women’s experience that encompass an adaptive, intergenerational understanding of feminism. Our article draws on interviews with the producer and scriptwriter of the Representage theatre group’s play My Turn Now. The script for the play is adapted from a 1993 co-authored book written by a group of six women who were then in their 60s and 70s, who founded a networking group for older women.

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2023

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“…Sarah experienced her "first love" when she was only six and had more than her share of boyfriends when she was a young woman. Up to that time, Sarah lived in realm of the imaginary, which is "associated with the desire and figure of the Mother" [6] according to Lacan. Sarah's demand for love wasn't satisfied, and on the contrary her misfortunate love stories seemed to be "mysteriously disfiguring and deforming her" [7]. For Sarah, Love, which represents the primitive missing, is always elusive and impossible to be fulfilled.…”

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Sarah's Lack of Love: A Lacanian Reading of Love, Again

Li¹,

Zong²

2016

Proceedings of 2016 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2016)

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Keywords: lack of love, theory of three registers, the imaginary, the symbolic.Abstract. Based on a Lacan's reading of the lack of love of Sarah, the heroine of Love, Again, the paper argues that the psychological transition from the imaginary to the symbolic is the underlying cause of Sarah's lack of love, and that it is the lack of love that helps Sarah re-enter the symbolic world and make progress on a higher level.

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‘If the Old Could’: Bridging the Generation Gap

King

2013

Discourses of Ageing in Fiction and Feminism

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Feminism, Eros, and the Coming of Age

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Aging as Adaptation

Aging as Adaptation

Sarah's Lack of Love: A Lacanian Reading of Love, Again

‘If the Old Could’: Bridging the Generation Gap

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