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What images come to mind with the words: women, aging, old, even elderly? Are they stereotypes? Are there any positive associations? 13 chapters explore images of old women from medieval "old wives? to contemporary reimaginations of shamans and witches and empowering self-portraits. Works from medieval Europe to colonial-time Polynesia, present West Africa, Japan, and the Americas, in a multiplicity of media are explored. These studies of varied representations of "old women? offer fresh perspectives and a dialogue about society's values and preconceptions regarding the "golden years? in different times and cultures and the wisdom of our elders.…mehr

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What images come to mind with the words: women, aging, old, even elderly? Are they stereotypes? Are there any positive associations? 13 chapters explore images of old women from medieval "old wives? to contemporary reimaginations of shamans and witches and empowering self-portraits. Works from medieval Europe to colonial-time Polynesia, present West Africa, Japan, and the Americas, in a multiplicity of media are explored. These studies of varied representations of "old women? offer fresh perspectives and a dialogue about society's values and preconceptions regarding the "golden years? in different times and cultures and the wisdom of our elders.
Autorenporträt
Frima Fox Hofrichter is Professor of history of art and design at the Pratt Institude, USA. She is the author of Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age (1989). Midori Yoshimoto is Associate Professor of Art History and Gallery Director at New Jersey City University, USA. She is the author of Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York (2005) and contributed to Yoko Ono One Woman Show (2015), Gutai: Splendid Playground (2013), and Yayoi Kusama(2011).