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Older Women and Everyday Talk about the Ageing Body

Susan Paulson

City University London, UK

Carla Willig

City University London, UK, c.willig{at}city.ac.uk

This discourse analytic study shows how 10 older women, who exercise regularly or attend the University of the Third Age, adjust to the ageing body in their `everyday talk' through taking a dualist position. The part of the body which is discursively constructed as ageing becomes objectified through appealing to a wider cultural discourse of ageing as biological decline. This dualist position is embedded within a wider cultural discourse of personal agency. The individual's control of the ageing body is emphasized, the ability to monitor and manage `ageing body parts' through exerting the `active mind' and the `busy body' in activities, or simply focusing on `looking good'.

Key Words: ageing body parts • biological decline • discursive constructions • dualism • personal agency

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 1, 106-120 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105307084316
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