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"A Few Cool Years after These": Midlife at Midcentury in Niedecker's Lyrics
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 33, Number 3, Spring 2010
- pp. 20-37
- 10.2979/jml.2010.33.3.20
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
This essay examines Lorine Niedecker's poems about aging and menopause as a register of emerging discourses about menopause in post-WWII United States. Read through the lens of popular and medical articulations of and responses to the medicalization of female aging, Niedecker's poems demonstrate a critique of consumer-based power and the gendered tropes of American literary history.
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