Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Michaelmas 2011 Seminar Series "The question of gender within an ageing society'
3 November 2011
‘Clothing and the Embodiment of Age’
Professor Julia Twigg, University of Kent
Lecture Background:
Clothing is the vestimentary envelope that contains and presents the body. It mediates between the naked body and the social world, the self and society, presenting a means whereby social expectations in relation to social categories act upon and are made manifest in the body. These connections have been well studied in terms of gender, class, ‘race’ and sexuality, but not age.
http://www.clothingandage.org
Speaker's bio:
Julia Twigg is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent.
She is joint convenor of the British Sociological Association Study group Ageing, the Body and Society.
Her research interests include age and the body from both a historical and sociological perspective. She has researched extensively on social care, particularly on carework as a form of bodywork. She is a co-editor for The Handbook of Cultural Gerontology and for Sociology of Health and Illness.
Her current work focuses on clothing, fashion and age.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/academic/twigg.html
Seminar Venue:
The seminar will take place at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing Seminar Room, 66 Banbury Road (Wolesey Hall – corner Banbury Road right across from North Parade) between 12:30 – 2:00 pm.
Further information:
http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/events/seminars
emanuela.bianchera@ageing.ox.ac.uk
