Alexandra Franklin Alex.Franklin@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
Visibly aging: On aspiring to be an old woman
Franklin, Alex
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Abstract
This paper will outline the methodological rationale behind the use of an analytic autoethnographic (Anderson 2006) approach to the study of aging when the researcher is not a full member of the (age) group being studied.
In this instance the author is a woman in her 40s studying the role that clothing consumption and dress practices play in the articulation or silencing of older women's (65+) ever-evolving identities in the UK. By identifying common intersecting experiences, autoethnography is here employed as a means of addressing the othering frequently inherent in research concerning 'the elderly'. As well as necessitating a public sharing of personal narratives alongside those of the research informants, which goes someway to collapse the traditional and problematic subject-object power dichotomy, an autoethnographic approach makes visible ageing as a continuum, the partitioning of which is largely both arbitrary and unhelpful to those obliged to embody the related cultural practices.
Citation
Franklin, A. (2016, October). Visibly aging: On aspiring to be an old woman. Paper presented at Aging & Society 2016: Sixth Interdisciplinary Conference, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (unpublished) |
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Conference Name | Aging & Society 2016: Sixth Interdisciplinary Conference |
Conference Location | Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden |
Start Date | Oct 6, 2016 |
End Date | Oct 7, 2016 |
Acceptance Date | Mar 9, 2016 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2016 |
Peer Reviewed | Not Peer Reviewed |
Keywords | autoethnography, ethics, clothing, aging, ageing |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/918903 |
Publisher URL | http://agingandsociety.com/2016-conference |
Additional Information | Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : Aging & Society 2016: Sixth Interdisciplinary Conference |
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