Product Description: In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of gender, race, and age by our culture’s scripts for “emotional” behavior and that the accelerating impoverishment of interiority is a symptom of our increasingly media-saturated culture...read more

Product Description: Figuring Age engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture. Like other markers of social difference, age is given meaning by a culture. Yet unlike gender and race, the subjects of age and aging have received little sustained attention...read more

Product Description: Provides an analysis of the effect of negative cultural representations on our ideas about getting old. This title argues that in the West ageism, like sexism and racism, is rooted in physical differences and in discrepancies in social power.