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Sex And Senesce: A Exploration Of Aging Women’S Sexual Selves, Cordray Mccann
Sex And Senesce: A Exploration Of Aging Women’S Sexual Selves, Cordray Mccann
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The sexual lives of women over the age of 50 are often forgotten from just about every medium. This research hopes to uncover how aging women interpret their current sexual selves, sexual histories, and changing bodies. In thinking about this, four women were interviewed about their life stories surrounded love, passion, and sex. Each of these women told brave accounts of their lives and through their narratives, we were able to draw theoretical conclusions about bodily shame, age performativity, and prescribed stereotypical roles. These four stories, told individually as to support each woman's personal narrative are vastly different yet intersect …