title: Older women and everyday talk about the ageing body.
abstract: This discourse analytic study shows how 10 older women, who exercise regularly or attend the University of the Third Age, adjust to the ageing body in their ;everyday talk' through taking a dualist position. The part of the body which is discursively constructed as ageing becomes objectified through appealing to a wider cultural discourse of ageing as biological decline. This dualist position is embedded within a wider cultural discourse of personal agency. The individual's control of the ageing body is emphasized, the ability to monitor and manage ;ageing body parts' through exerting the ;active mind' and the ;busy body' in activities, or simply focusing on ;looking good'.
authors: City University London, UK.
authors: Susan
authors: S
authors: Paulson
authors: Carla
authors: C
authors: Willig
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001828:Body Image; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D006113:United Kingdom