JOURNAL OF WOMEN & AGING女性与老龄化杂志
JOURNAL OF WOMEN & AGING(英文缩写 J WOMEN AGING),ISSN 0895-2841,eISSN 1540-7322,中文译名:女性与老龄化杂志 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-10-01 至 2026-09-30，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
期刊介绍
历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1.792 | Q2 |
| 2022 | 1.500 | Q3 |
| 2023 | 1.700 | Q2 |
| 2024 | 1.500 | Q2 |
| 2025 | 1.800 | Q2 |
JOURNAL OF WOMEN & AGING 最新收录文献
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1. "To hell with it all!": older women's disengagement from age-masking beauty work.
PMID:日期:2026-09-24Aging beyond youth presents challenges for women, who often struggle to remain visible and valued in an ageist society. To hide their age, many older women engage in age-masking beauty work, like coloring gray hair and using anti-aging products. While these practices have been the focus of prior research, limited attention has been given to women's disengagement from them. Moreover, ageist norms and ideologies largely situate disengagement as a failure to conform to youth-centric beauty norms - that is, as "letting oneself go" - rather than reflecting a deliberate decision to reject beauty norms and the objectifying view of women that they represent. To address this issue, we examine women's withdrawal from age-masking beauty work, drawing on in-depth interviews with women who range in age from 56 to 82 (n = 20). Mirroring previous studies, our analyses revealed that all the participants had felt pressure to retain a youthful appearance and had engaged in some form of age-related beauty work over their lives. Our study, however, expands the literature by focusing explicitly on disengagement, revealing three processes through which some women stepped away from age-masking beauty work: Conditional Disengagement, Supported Disengagement, and Practical-to-Critical Disengagement. By shifting the focus from women's participation in age-masking practices to their conscious withdrawal from them, our study reveals how disengagement can reflect an active rejection of youth-centric beauty standards, as well as the objectification of women: It reframes disengagement not as decline, but as resistance.
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2. [Un]conventional motherhood: Media representations and perceptions of older mothers in Thailand.
PMID:日期:2026-08-31Older women's maternal roles are often assumed to diminish once their children reach adulthood. As a result, older mothers are marginalized and underrepresented in the media and society. This research examines cultural perceptions and representations of older motherhood in Thailand, a country with one of Asia's fastest-growing aging populations, through the analysis of , a popular influencer marketing channel featuring the mothers of four entertainment celebrities, and interview data with sixteen Thai women aged 60 to 69. It reveals that the show challenges stereotypes of older mothers as obsolete, dependent, and disconnected from younger generations by depicting them as digitally literate, active, and self-reliant, while reinforcing traditional feminine ideals by glorifying domesticity and maternal care roles. It also associates the celebrity children's accomplishments with 'successful motherhood'. Participants' reflections were closely aligned with these narratives. They aspired to remain independent of their children's care and support while sustaining relationships with them. Some were committed to domestic roles and raising successful children, while attempting to be 'modern agers' by being digitally engaged and relatable to younger generations. This study highlights the paradoxes in the representations of older motherhood in Thailand, a country shaped by modern neoliberal ideals alongside enduring national traditions that uphold familial harmony and domesticity. It contributes culturally specific insights into older motherhood in an underexamined Global South context to feminist and media studies, and it calls for more inclusive and diverse representations of aging women and their maternal roles.
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3. Between Lipstick and Widow's White: Female desire and gendered ageism in contemporary Bollywood.
PMID:日期:2026-08-27Aging women in Bollywood have long been confined within a narrow repertoire of archetypes, among them the suffering widow, the stern matriarch, and the self-effacing grandmother, figures defined not by individuality or desire but by moral authority, self-sacrifice, and patriarchal function. Shaped by what Susan Sontag termed the 'double standard of aging' and intensified by the social economy of Brahminical patriarchy, these representational conventions have historically rendered older women's sexuality, reproductive agency, and social presence cinematically inconceivable. When older women assert agency, express desire, or transgress the boundaries of respectability, they risk social ridicule, pity, or pathologisation, their erotic subjectivity systematically erased through what feminist gerontologists theorise as sexageism, the compounded oppression of ageism and sexism. This article examines three recent films, (dir. Alankrita Shrivastava, 2017), (dir. Amit Ravindernath Sharma, 2018), and (dir. Vikas Khanna, 2019), as exemplary interventions in this evolving discourse. Each film confronts a distinct dimension of gendered ageism: the suppression of erotic subjectivity and later-life desire, the pathologisation of late-life reproductive agency, and the institutionalised erasure of widows from public and social life. Through close textual analysis, the article traces how each film negotiates the representational conventions it contests. It argues that these films constitute an emergent and still fragile reimagining of aging femininity in South Asian popular culture, one that moves beyond deficit-oriented frameworks to offer new vocabularies of desire, agency, and visibility for older women on screen.
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4. Elder women's visual narratives of digital technology in Kerala.
PMID:日期:2026-08-22Elder women in India are routinely positioned at the margins of digital ageing research, framed as technologically deficient rather than structurally excluded. This Photovoice study challenges that framing by examining how thirty elder women (aged 60-85) in Kochi, Kerala, experience, represent, and negotiate digital technology in everyday life. Using their own smartphones, participants generated photographs over a four-week period. Individual photo-elicitation interviews were conducted, and reflexive thematic analysis following Braun and Clarke was employed using ATLAS.ti Version 25. Six analytically distinct themes were generated. The study finds that digital exclusion among these women is socially produced rather than individually determined. Key mechanisms include anticipatory fear of blame leading to pre-emptive withdrawal, the paradox of protective gatekeeping enacted by adult children, spousal digital intermediacy whose structural fragility becomes visible at widowhood, and design injustice enacted through body-interface mismatches and memory-punishing authentication systems. Television emerged as the primary technology of emotional and temporal life, challenging smartphone-centred digital inclusion metrics. The study also documents elder women as active digital knowledge-producers within their communities and identifies a subset of participants exercising self-determined non-participation. Implications are discussed for digital inclusion policy, gerontological scholarship, and technology design.
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5. {"_":"Aging women's sexual agency: Subverting the male gaze in Japanese pink film (2001).","i":["Lily Festival"]}
PMID:日期:2026-08-20This article critically examines Sachi Hamano's (2001) as a feminist and queer cinematic intervention within Japanese (softcore pornography), analyzing how the film challenges ageism and sexism through three interconnected strategies: subverting the male gaze, reconfiguring aging sexuality, and articulating an aging female/queer gaze. Methodologically, the article employs an integrated textual-contextual analysis, combining close reading of cinematography-such as obscured phallic imagery and extreme close-ups of aging erogenous zones-with critique of Japan's socio-cultural narratives that marginalize older women. Theoretically, it draws on three intersecting frameworks-Mulvey's feminist critique of the male gaze, de Lauretis's queer spectatorship, and Sontag and Woodward's aging studies-to examine Hamano's reimagining of aging femininity. The film subverts patriarchal visual conventions by denying phallic visibility and reversing power dynamics through older women's manipulation of impotent male bodies. It also reconfigures aging sexuality by having aging protagonists reclaim autonomy through both subversive heterosexual encounters and emergent same-sex intimacy. Furthermore, through emotionally resonant cinematography-such as reciprocal close-ups and gender-subversive fantasies-the film articulates an aging female/queer gaze, creating non-objectifying visual economies. By situating older Asian lesbians at the intersectional margins of ageism, sexism, and heteronormativity-distinguishing aging female subjectivity from queerness while tracing how they mutually reinforce each other-the film challenges an established paradigm: the heteronormative and youth-centered visual economy of mainstream pornography. This process of constructing a counter-gaze-through subversion, reconfiguration, and articulation-contributes to aging studies by advocating media narratives that redefine femininity beyond patriarchal constraints.
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6. Aging beauty matters: Normative and resistant narratives on female aging bodies.
PMID:日期:2026-08-15This article examines how older women navigate beauty work and anti-aging norms within contemporary Western aesthetic regimes. Rather than centering menopause as a biological transition, the study foregrounds beauty work as a key site where ageism and sexism intersect in shaping women's embodied experiences. Drawing on feminist sociology, cultural gerontology, embodiment theory, and scholarship on decline narratives, visibility and temporal governance, anti-aging norms are conceptualized as a form of gendered biopolitical regulation that frames visible aging as aesthetic and moral failure.Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Milan and Turin, Italy, involving 25 women aged 63-73 and 28 professionals working in aesthetic and anti-aging centers, the study demonstrates how aging women internalize, negotiate, reinterpret, and at times resist normative discourses of beauty and aging. Beauty work emerges as neither purely oppressive nor fully emancipatory, but as a situated practice embedded within neoliberal, age-stratified, classed and gendered power relations.The article contributes to feminist aging studies by highlighting not only discriminatory aesthetic norms, but also alternative narratives through which older women reframe wrinkles, gray hair, bodily change, salon sociability and aesthetic care as resources for dignity, visibility, relational belonging and embodied agency.
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7. Gender differences in the associations between cognition and expectations regarding aging.
PMID:日期:2026-08-06Emerging evidence has reported associations between more negative views on aging and poorer performance on cognitive tasks. However, findings have been inconsistent. Gender differences and the cognitive status of participants may help explain these discrepancies. This study therefore investigated (a) the associations of gender, presence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and their interaction with expectations regarding aging (ERA, a measure assessing views on aging); and (b) the associations between subjective and objective cognitive measures and ERA in cognitively normal (CN) individuals and those with MCI. We report cross-sectional data from the Personality and Total Health Through Life Project (PATH), comprising 1,562 participants (48% females, age = 75.06 ( = 1.50), age range = 72-79). ERA were assessed using the 12-item ERA scale, covering global ERA and domain-specific expectations related to physical health, mental health, and cognitive function. Objectively-assessed global cognition, memory, working memory, and processing speed, and subjective memory complaints were assessed using standardized neuropsychological test batteries. Multiple linear regression models were estimated. Among CN participants, women reported more positive ERA than men ( = 4.42, < .001). Participants with MCI exhibited lower ERA than CN individuals ( = -6.05, < .001). Subjective memory complaints were associated with lower ERA both in CN ( = -5.38, < .001) and MCI ( = -8.85, < .01) participants. Findings support an association between greater current cognition and more positive ERA. Interventions promoting brain health could benefit from a component fostering positive ERA. For individuals experiencing cognitive decline, future research may evaluate strategies that encourage the maintenance of realistic, yet optimistic aging perceptions.
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8. Sources of joy among older African American women: A qualitative analysis.
PMID:日期:2026-07-29Joy has been identified as a potential contributor to health and well-being, yet remains understudied among older African American women, a group disproportionately exposed to chronic stress and structural inequities across the life course. This qualitative study explores sources of joy in later life and examines how joy is defined, experienced, and sustained within their everyday lives. Guided by Black Feminist Thought, we conducted a reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) of responses to the question "What brings you joy?" drawn from semi-structured interviews with 16 African American women aged 65-91. Narratives revealed four overarching themes: (1) Experiencing and Preserving Black Culture, (2) Play and Adventure, (3) Spirituality and Life Purpose, and (4) Community and Connection. Findings suggest that joy functions as an affirming, culturally grounded practice that challenges deficit-based narratives of aging and is central to how well-being is understood and lived in later life. These findings contribute strengths-based perspectives on later-life well-being among older African American women and underscore the importance of centering women's own meanings of joy in research, policy, and practice.
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9. Reproductive ageism: Late fertility and the politics of good mothering in Chile.
PMID:日期:2026-07-29Late fertility is a growing global phenomenon, but midlife mothers continue to be subject to social prejudice. This article introduces the notion of reproductive ageism as an epistemic tool to explore the cultural age norms underlying reproduction and understand how midlife mothers receive, resist, and resignify social prejudice by framing their identities as good mothers and their childrearing practices as good mothering. Drawing on qualitative data produced through 40 interviews on the transition to motherhood with Chilean women, the findings reveal that age remains an important cultural marker of women's ability to be good mothers and that aging in the context of reproduction is often interpreted through risks of infertility, poor health, and bad mothering. In negotiating reproductive ageism, midlife mothers contest age as a marker of physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing while stressing how it improves their readiness for parenting and strengthens their desirability for motherhood. In doing so, midlife mothers both challenge and reinforce ideologies of stratified reproduction and normative hierarchies of motherhood.
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10. Informal caregiving and leisure satisfaction among middle-aged married women in South Korea: The mediating role of leisure sufficiency.
PMID:日期:2026-07-27This study investigated the association between informal caregiving and leisure satisfaction among middle-aged married women in South Korea, with a particular focus on the mediating role of perceived leisure sufficiency. We used nationally representative data from the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families to classify women in their 40s and 50s into childcare, parental care, and dual-care groups. We then analyzed differences in their leisure experiences. Mediation analyses revealed that greater working hours, household chores, and caregiving responsibilities were associated with lowered leisure sufficiency, which was in turn associated with lowered leisure satisfaction. Weekday caregiving exerted the strongest indirect effects, while dual caregivers faced the most severe negative outcomes, highlighting the compounding pressures of caring for both children and aging parents. These findings contribute to the literature on time use and subjective well-being by highlighting perceived leisure sufficiency as a potential mediating factor linking time demands and subjective well-being in midlife. The results have implications for caregiving policy design in aging societies worldwide, suggesting that flexible work arrangements, integrated care services, and emotional support systems are needed to alleviate the compounded burdens faced by caregivers.