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Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging - Couverture souple

Cruikshank, Margaret

 
9780847698493: Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0847698491 ISBN 13 : 9780847698493
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002

Synopsis

What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is successful aging our responsibility, and what will happen if we fail to grow old gracefully? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the U.S. is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual orientation have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena, yet aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses. This book helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Feminist scholar Margaret Cruikshank looks at a variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging including fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0847698491
ISBN 13 
9780847698493
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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