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dc.contributor.authorDaly, Kim
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-24T10:02:46Z
dc.date.available2026-02-24T10:02:46Z
dc.date.issued2026-01-29
dc.identifier.issn1505-9065
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/57529
dc.description.abstractAlthough images of cis and trans women’s sexual anatomy are often taken up as acts of feminist pride, symbolizing women’s empowerment, images of older women’s genitals remain much less visible. In this study, I used visual content analysis to determine the representation of ageing bias in a vulva positive social media site and in a stock photography website. The study results confirm a lack of representation in popular visual culture, so that the discursive production of older women’s sexual anatomy remains centered on medical and social notions of menopausal deficiency. Notions of atrophy, decay, and ignored anatomy create challenges in the attainment of satisfactory images for self-identification, physical knowledge, and sexual health for women at midlife and beyond. I make recommendations about how older women’s sexual anatomy might become part of visual culture, with the potential to be developed as a site of feminist activism.en
dc.description.abstractBien que les images d’organes génitaux des femmes cisgenres et trans soient acceptées comme acte de fierté féministe, les images génitales des femmes de 3e âge apparaissent beaucoup moins. Lors de cette étude, je me suis servie d’une analyse de contenu visuel pour déterminer le biais de vieillissement à travers un site médiatique et un site-web de banque d’images. Les conclusions de l’étude confirment un manque de représentation dans la culture populaire visuelle ce qui résulterait en une production discursive des organes sexuels des femmes âgées comme centrées sur des conceptions sociales d’une déficience ménopause. Les idées basées sur l’atrophie, la dégradation, et une anatomie oubliée relèvent des défis pour obtenir des images satisfaisantes d’identification de soi, de compréhension corporelle, et de santé sexuelle pour des femmes au mi-temps de la vie. Certaines recommandations sont formulées comment l’anatomie sexuelle des femmes âgées pourrait faire partie d’une culture visuelle et, éventuellement, être incorporée d’un site consacré à l’activisme féministe.fr
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Romanica;21fr
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectageingen
dc.subjectvulvaen
dc.subjectfeminismen
dc.subjectsexual healthen
dc.subjectvisual analysisen
dc.subjectle vieillissementfr
dc.subjectla vulvefr
dc.subjectle féminismefr
dc.subjectla santé sexuellefr
dc.subjectl’analyse de contenu visuelfr
dc.title‘Snatched Away’: Ageing Bias in Vulva Positive Social Media and Stock Photography Images of the Vulvaen
dc.title.alternative« Vulve vieillie volée » : Biais de vieillissement de la vulve dans des images positives au sein des médias sociaux et de la banque d’images photographiquesfr
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number363-381
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Victoria, School of Nursingen
dc.identifier.eissn2449-8831
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dc.contributor.authorEmailkimdaly@uvic.ca
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/1505-9065.21.18


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