Women's Ageing and Sexuality: Unruly Aesthetics

By Katrien de Graeve and Giulia Nazzaro

Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.

How do older women use art and media to resist ageist and sexist norms that regulate their intimacy and sexuality?

This book brings the subversive aesthetic strategies of older women to the forefront, using the concept of 'unruliness', understood as a failure or unwillingness to conform.

Drawing on critical age studies, feminist theory and allied critical approaches, the book develops a new conceptual model that positions ageing women's aesthetic interventions as a source of insight and social change.

Combining theory with close readings of art and media, this book is a bold framework for rethinking ageing, sexuality and empowerment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447370066
• ISBN13: 9781447370062
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 160 Pages