Spinsters, Widows and Chars: The Ageing Woman in British Film

ISBN-13: 9781474452823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str.

MORTIMER CLAIRE

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List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction: Ageing Women and British Cinema; 2: Immobile Women? Ageing Women and Wartime Cinema; 3: ‘It Ain’t Natural Her Not Having a Husband’: Spinsters and the Post-War Settlement; 4: ‘Dangerous and Unwholesome’ - the Spinster Teacher; 5: Battle Axes and Chars: Working-Class Matriarchs; 6: ‘Not Having It So Good’: Widowhood, Anomalous Ageing and the Welfare State; 7: ‘Infertile, Domestically Unnecessary, and Jealous’: Hags, Witches, and the Magic Spinster; 8: ‘Senior-Bait Cinema’: Female Ageing in Contemporary British Film; Bibliography; Index