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Mapping female ageing in the twenty-first century in Deborah Moggach's last novels 在黛博拉·莫加奇的最后一部小说中描绘了21世纪的女性老龄化

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101351

Maricel Oró-Piqueras

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“For ladies, 35 is check-out time”: An anocritical approach to the sitcom Girls5eva “对女人来说，35岁是退房时间”：对情景喜剧《都市女孩》的一种批评

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101326

Aagje Swinnen, Sara De Vuyst

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A real old man: Aging masculinity and late-life creativity in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea 一个真正的老人：欧内斯特·海明威的《老人与海》中的老年男子气概和晚年创造力

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101356

Anita Wohlmann

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Sexual pleasure in older age: haptic visuality and female eroticism in three contemporary Spanish films 老年时期的性快感：三部当代西班牙电影中的触觉视觉与女性情色

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101347

Raquel Medina Bañón

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“To love, to create, to express, to live”- a typology of aging poems by older men “去爱，去创造，去表达，去生活”——这是老年人诗歌的一种类型学

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101343

Dovrat Harel , Liat Ayalon

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Triangulation: Analyzing age, gender, and migration in a study of Bangladeshi migrants in London and in Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane (2003) 三角测量：分析年龄，性别和移民在伦敦和莫妮卡·阿里的小说砖巷孟加拉移民的研究（2003）

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101344

Heike Hartung, Rüdiger Kunow

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Small acts of resistance – community-dwelling oldest old reclaiming autonomy during a pandemic 微小的抵抗行为——在大流行期间，居住在社区的老年人重新获得自主权

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101361

Hanna Varjakoski , Elisa Tiilikainen , Inna Lisko , Jenni Kulmala , Alina Solomon

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Narrative engagement in story listening: The challenge of age and vision loss 故事倾听中的叙事参与：年龄和视力丧失的挑战

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101355

Signe Lund Mathiesen , Amanda Grenier , Walter Wittich , Mahadeo Sukhai , Björn Herrmann

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At Your Age?! and AgeACTED: a theoretical exploration of an ethnodrama on ageism 在你这个年纪？！ageact：一部关于年龄歧视的民族剧的理论探索

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101349

Elaine Desmond, Eleanor Bantry White

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Tasteful old age: A qualitative study on nursing home marketing and class identity among middle-class older adults in urban China 有品位的晚年：中国城市中产阶级老年人敬老院营销与阶层认同的定性研究

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101348

Yeori Park

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