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Tables of Contents for Figuring Age
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Kathleen Woodward
OPENING THE SUBJECT
3
56
The Marks of Time
3
17
Nancy K. Miller
Aging and the Scandal of Anachronism
20
14
Mary Russo
The Other End of the Fashion Cycle: Practicing Loss, Learning Decline
34
25
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
HISTORICIZING AGE
59
72
Little Women: The Aging Female Character in Nineteenth-Century British Children's Literature
59
29
Teresa Mangum
Incubabies and Rejuvenates: The Traffic between Technologies of Reproduction and Age-Extension
88
24
Susan Squier
Charcot's Older Women: Bodies of Knowledge at the Interface of Aging Studies and Women's Studies
112
19
Stephen Katz
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND AGING
131
40
Social Physics: Inertia, Energy, and Aging
131
18
Teresa Brennan
Inventing Generational Models: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Literature
149
22
Kathleen Woodward
VISUALIZING AGE, PERFORMING AGE
171
126
Trauma and Aging: Marlene Dietrich, Melanie Klein, and Marguerite Duras
171
24
E. Ann Kaplan
Not a Jealous Bone
195
5
Cecelia Condit
Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery, and Special Effects
200
12
Vivian Sobchack
Monster/Beauty: Midlife Bodybuilding as Aesthetic Discipline
212
15
Joanna Frueh
Figure Model Series, 1991-1995
227
5
Jacqueline Hayden
Performing Aging/Performance Crisis (for Norma Desmond, Baby Jane, Margo Channing, Sister George--and Myrtle)
232
16
Jodi Brooks
Dolly Descending a Staircase: Stardom, Age, and Gender in Times Square
248
16
Anne Davis Basting
Aging between the Ears
264
4
Rachel Rosenthal
Touching Surfaces: Photography, Aging, and an Aesthetics of Change
268
29
Anca Cristofovici
FAMILY PORTRAITS
297
52
The Well of Wisdom: The Love of Older Women among French Lesbians
297
13
Marie-Claire Pasquier
From Anxiety to Equanimity: Crisis and Generational Continuity on TV, at the Movies, in Life, in Death
310
19
Patricia Mellencamp
Genealogy
329
7
Joanne M. Braxton
Missing Alice: In Search of a Mother's Voice
336
4
Susan Letzler Cole
Making an Exit
340
9
Elinor Fuchs
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
349
4
INDEX
353