We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
Who's Afraid of Baba Yaga? A Reading of Ageing From the Gender Perspective.
- Authors
GEIGER ZEMAN, MARIJA; ZEMAN, ZDENKO
- Abstract
Despite the fact that an increase in the old-age population is noticeable in most contemporary societies, the issues of growing old and personal experience of the old-age population, old women in particular, remain unnoticed. In a culture fascinated by youth, old age is perceived in stereotypical ways, with a lot of prejudice, taboos and fears that produce many negative perceptions and discriminatory practices. The paper is based on the analysis of ageing issues and life narratives of elderly women presented in the novel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2009) by Dubravka Ugrešić. Baba Yaga, the ambivalent mythological heroine, has been shown as a greatly provocative character who - reinterpreted in the feminist key - creates new meanings and an emancipatory potential for women of all ages.
- Subjects
AGING &; society; PSYCHOLOGY of older women; PREJUDICES; BABA Yaga (Legendary character); AGEISM
- Publication
Croatian Journal of Ethnology & Folklore Research / Narodna Umjetnost, 2014, Vol 51, Issue 1, p223
- ISSN
0547-2504
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15176/vol51no111