Ageing Identities and Women's Everyday Talk in a Hair Salon

ISBN-13: 9781032175843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Rachel Heinrichsmeier

Opis

Heinrichsmeier presents the results of her two-year sociolinguistic study examining how a group of older women of different ages negotiated their way through their own and others’ expectations of ageing and constructed different kinds of older – and other – identities for themselves.

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Spis treści

List of figures

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Acknowledgements

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Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 Ageing in society and in interaction

Chapter 2 Researching identities in a hair salon

Chapter 3 Ageing: Manoeuvring around decline

Chapter 4 Not only old: Negotiating ageing in salon talk

Chapter 5 First impressions

Chapter 6 Negotiating stances to appearance

Chapter 7 Ageing well in stories of daily life

Chapter 8 Being more than ‘older women’

Chapter 9 Looking back, looking forward

References

Index

O autorze

Rachel Heinrichsmeier is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. Her research focusses on identity construction in interaction, particularly older-age, gender and institutional identities, and combines a conversation analytic-informed discourse analysis with ethnographic methods.