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Visual images, gender and ageing

The United Nations Second World Assembly on Ageing 2002 called for new media images to counteract ageism by demonstrating the strengths, resourcefulness and contributions of older women. Can participatory visual methods offer one route to achieving this?

Shirley in the photo therapy workshop
Lorna Warren

Lorna Warren describes here an interesting project aimed at counteracting the often negative stereotypes of older women found in the mass media.

Using feminist visual methodologies to explore different ways in which to convey positive images of older women, the approach involved participants playing an active role in the research, rather than simply being the objects of study.

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