Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Cultures of Ageing and Care: Series Preface v
3. Acknowledgements and Dedication vii
4. Contents ix
5. Introduction: Women’s Narratives of Ageing and Care 1
6. Collaborative Care: Sharing Stories of Ageing in Recent French and Francophone Women’s Writing 21
7. Still the Carer Sex?: Women Ageing and Caring in Contemporary Women’s Writing 39
8. “See this scar on my hand?”: Women’s Graphic Narratives of Ageing and Care 55
9. Co-presence as Care: The Performing Objects of Bérangère Vantusso and troissix- trente 81
10. The Ethics of Care in Retirement-Home Mystery Narratives 101
11. Caring Fictions: Ageing and Ethics in Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing and Joanna Cannon’s Three Things About Elsie 121
12. Speaking of M/Others: Dementia, Care and the Maternal Voice 137
13. “Retomber en enfance”: The “Second Childhood” as a Positive Paradigm of Care in Sophie Fontanel’s Grandir 159
14. “I would not touch her”: Digust, Disamore and the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Laudomia Bonanni, Donatella Di Pietrantonio and Maria Grazia Calandrone 179
15. Replenishment and Depletion: The Carers UK Archive and the Crisis of Care 197
16. About the Authors 215
17. Index 219