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Visibly aging: On aspiring to be an old woman (2016)
Presentation / Conference
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

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 aut... Read More about Visibly aging: On aspiring to be an old woman.

Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2016, July). Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman. Paper presented at The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2016 [AGen2016], Kobe, Japan

This paper will outline the findings of the author's 2016 study examining the online clothes shopping practices of female consumers aged 65+ in the UK; this age group is one which is growing significantly in the UK [1] but remains at best largely ove... Read More about Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman.