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Interrogating Women's Experience of Ageing: Reinforcing or Challenging Cliches?


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The "Representing Self-Representing Ageing" initiative has been funded by the ESRC as part of the New Dynamics of Ageing cross-council research programme. It has consisted of four projects with older women using participatory arts to enable women to articulate their experiences of ageing, and to create alternative images of ageing. Methods have included the use of art elicitation, photo-diaries, film-booths, directed photography, and phototherapy.

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Women and Ageing, Feminism and Ageing, Picturing Ageing, Participatory Arts, Visual Research Methods.
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Susan Hogan
University of Derby, United Kingdom

Abstract


The "Representing Self-Representing Ageing" initiative has been funded by the ESRC as part of the New Dynamics of Ageing cross-council research programme. It has consisted of four projects with older women using participatory arts to enable women to articulate their experiences of ageing, and to create alternative images of ageing. Methods have included the use of art elicitation, photo-diaries, film-booths, directed photography, and phototherapy.

Keywords


Women and Ageing, Feminism and Ageing, Picturing Ageing, Participatory Arts, Visual Research Methods.

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