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No country for old women: age, power, and beauty in Neil Gaiman's Fantasies
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Abstract
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| This essay uses Neil Gaiman's Stardust, The Sleeper and the Spindle, and "Chivalry," to examine the intersection of age and gender in his fairy-tale appropriations to consider how fantasy can reiterate stereotypical representations of older women. By drawing on the age studies work of Sylvia Henneberg and Susan Pickard to consider ageism as a cross-section to gendered constructions in Gaiman's works, I make visible how age affects perception and construction of gender, which can lead to the intertwining of age stereotypes and gendered double standards. |
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English
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Marvels & tales. - Detroit, Mich., 1997, currens
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Publication
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Detroit, Mich.
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Wayne State University Press
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2023
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ISSN
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1521-4281
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1536-1802
[Online]
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DOI
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10.1353/MAT.2023.A900258
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37
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(2023)
, p. 3-20
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