ABSTRACT This paper relies on a feminist perspective on ageing to analyse Wendy Wasserstein’s plays. The Pulitzer-Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) is good at dramatising the experience of women, especially their experience of ageing anxiety and ageing crises in their middle age. Their quest for identity is problematised in the paper in order to show the fluidity of identity through the passage of time and to represent human life as a continuity. The paper first studies feminist writings about ageing. It asserts that ageing is socially and culturally constructed, instead of biological in nature, and it also argues that women suffer more from the conspiracy of ageism and sexism. Then the paper focuses on Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig (1991) to examine the influence of the ageing process for middle-aged women and the way they re-identify themselves. Wasserstein also depicts different experiences of female ageing in Isn’t It Romantic (1983), The Heidi Chronicles (1988), An American Daughter (1997), and Third (2005), which constitutes the third section of the paper. Finally, the paper concludes that Wasserstein’s plays demonstrate a feminist analysis of ageing, illustrate diversity of ageing experience, and remind us about social differences in the understanding of female ageing.

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没有名字的问题：温迪·华瑟斯坦的戏剧中的年龄和年龄认同

摘要本文以女权主义的衰老观点来分析温迪·瓦瑟斯坦的戏剧。普利策奖获得者温迪·瓦瑟斯坦（Wendy Wasserstein，1950–2006年）擅长戏剧化女性的经历，尤其是她们中年人的焦虑和衰老危机的经历。他们对身份的追求在本文中有问题，以显示身份随着时间流逝的流动性，并将人类生活表现为一种连续性。该论文首先研究了关于衰老的女权主义著作。它断言衰老是在社会和文化上建构的，而不是自然的生物学，它还认为，妇女更容易遭受年龄歧视和性别歧视的阴谋。然后，本文重点关注瓦瑟斯坦（Wasserstein）的《姐妹姐妹罗森斯维格（The Sisters Rosensweig）（1991）》，研究衰老过程对中年妇女的影响以及她们重新识别自己的方式。瓦瑟斯坦还描述了女性衰老的不同经历，《浪漫的历史》（1983），《海蒂纪事》（1988），《美国女儿》（1997）和《第三》（2005）构成了论文的第三部分。最后，本文得出的结论是，华瑟斯坦的戏剧展示了对衰老的女权主义分析，阐明了衰老经历的多样性，并提醒我们有关女性衰老理解的社会差异。