Events at Wellesley

Despite the critical and public attention garnered by the 2024 film Substance which attempted to grapple with Demi Moore’s battle with ageing on and off screen, mainstream films broaching the subject of old-age tend to proliferate disempowering or demeaning and fixed representations of ageing…

Rachel Mesch is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University. She is the author of three interdisciplinary works on gender in nineteenth-century France, The Hysteric’s Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle (2006); Having it All in the Belle…