This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism - Couverture souple

Applewhite, Ashton

 
9781911545262: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1911545264 ISBN 13 : 9781911545262
Editeur : Melville House UK, 2019

Synopsis

From childhood on, we're barraged by messages that it's sad to be old. That wrinkles are embarrassing, and old people are useless. Author and activist Ashton Applewhite believed them too - until she realised where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces Applewhite's journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-ageing radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. The book explains the roots of ageism - in history and in our own age denial - and how it divides and debases, examines how ageist myths and stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of olders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and concludes with a rousing call to action. Whether you're older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life.

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Revue de presse

This is a book packed with provocative and liberating ideas, to make you leap into the air with pleasure even if your knees, like mine, are a little dodgy. Anne Karpf, author of How to Age

The perfect wake-up call proving that age is just a number. Christopher Biggins, Age UK ambassador

A lively, thought-provoking read, masterfully deconstructing harmful ageist stereotypes. Shirley Cramer CBE, Chief Executive, Royal Society for Public Health

Try a sip from this glass-half-full treatise on ageing by Ashton Applewhite, who talks the talk and walks the walk about the joys of ageing, and nod in agreement at much that she tells us. Dr Chris Ball, Centre for Research into the Older Workforce

A book we have been waiting for... blows up myths seven to a page like fireworks. Los Angeles Review of Books

Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me. --Anne Lamott, New York Times best-selling author 

Présentation de l'éditeur

From childhood on, we're barraged by messages that it's sad to be old. That wrinkles are embarrassing, and old people are useless. Author and activist Ashton Applewhite believed them too - until she realised where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces Applewhite's journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-ageing radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. The book explains the roots of ageism - in history and in our own age denial - and how it divides and debases, examines how ageist myths and stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of olders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and concludes with a rousing call to action. Whether you're older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life.

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Éditeur
Melville House UK
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1911545264
ISBN 13 
9781911545262
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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