Leni Marshall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and the coeditor (with Valerie Barnes Lipscomb) of Staging Age: The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film.

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Constructing the Body of Age Studies

2. Deconstructing the Body Through Age Studies: A Primer

3. Ambiguous Loss, Ambiguous Gain: Age Studies Analyses in Menopause and Beyond

4. Changing Bodies and Changing Minds with Doris Lessing's The Diaries of Jane Somers

5. Lucille Clifton's Poetic Perspective and Aging

6. Storytelling and Cultural Transmission, with Louise Erdrich's Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

7. Rewriting Death, Rewriting Life

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Works Cited
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