Cultural Aging
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55111-577-1 (ISBN)
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Getting older is not what it used to be. Unprecedented changes to longevity, demographic, and life course patterns are transforming the social roles and experiences of older people. Cultural Aging explores this phenomenon and focuses on what it means to grow older today. As Western populations age, positive images of aging that promote activity, autonomy, mobility, and choice have increased. On the one hand, these images defy traditionally negative stereotypes of decline, decrepitude, and dependency and create new opportunities for self-definition that stretch middle age into later life. On the other hand, the new aging animates an anti-aging culture, which potentially idealizes later life as an experience unburdened by the challenging material realities of growing older. This collection of essays looks at two general themes: the way that modern life course regimes have been defined historically by the professional sciences and the way that aging identities have been affected by the cultural and economic significance of consumer lifestyle markets.
In the process, Katz offers a truly interdisciplinary approach to the subject that expands traditional gerontological theory by borrowing from the humanities, feminism, and cultural theory.
Stephen Katz is a Professor of Sociology at Trent Unversity in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge, 1996. He has written widely on issues of aging and gerontology.
Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Aging, Life Course, and The Cultural Politics of Expertise Chapter 1: Imagining the Life Span: From Premodern Miracles to Postmodern Fantasies Chapter 2: Charcot's Older Women: Bodies of Knowledge at the Interface of Aging Studies and Women's Studies Chapter 3: The Government of Detail: The Case of Social Policy on Aging, Stephen Katz and Bryan Green Chapter 4: Reflections on the Gerontological Handbook Chapter 5: Critical Gerontological Theory: Intellectual Fieldwork and the Nomadic Life of Ideas Chapter 6: Creativity Across the Life Course? Titian, Michelangelo, and Older Artist Narratives, Stephen Katz and Erin Campbell Part Two: Lifestyle and the Fashioning of Senior Worlds Chapter 7: Busy Bodies: Activity, Aging, and the Management of Everyday Life Chapter 8: Exemplars of Retirement: Identity and Agency Between Lifestyle and Social Movement, Stephen Katz and Debbie Laliberte-Rudman Chapter 9: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body, Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz Chapter 10: Growing Older Without Aging? Postmodern Time and Senior Markets Chapter 11: Spaces of Age, Snowbirds, and the Gerontology of Mobility: The Elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida Afterword: Aging Together References Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.2005 |
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| Verlagsort | Peterborough |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 380 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-55111-577-8 / 1551115778 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-55111-577-1 / 9781551115771 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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