Baby Boomers

Time and Ageing Bodies

Naomi Woodspring (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2016
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-1877-4 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This ground-breaking study of the baby boomer generation reflects the intersection of time, ageing, body and identity to give a nuanced and enlightened understanding of the ageing process.

This ground-breaking study of the baby boomer generation, who are now entering old age, breaks new ground in ageing research. This post-war cohort has experienced a range of social, cultural, and medical changes in regard to their notions of body, from the introduction of the Pill and the decoupling of sex and procreation to the H-Bomb and Earthrise. Yet, paradoxically, ageing is also universal. This exciting book reflects the intersection of time, ageing, body and identity to give a more nuanced and enlightened understanding of the ageing process.

Dr Naomi Woodspring completed her PhD in 2014 and is now a Research Fellow, University of the West of England as part of the Bristol Ageing Better project. Prior to returning to university as a late life learner, she had her own consulting firm providing sustainable solutions to organisational and community challenges. She also worked as a psychotherapist in a wide variety of settings from managing a community prison project to Native American communities.

Introduction: the curiosity of ageing body, time, and identity;

Kaleidoscopic Sixties;

The appearance of time;

On time;

Body and identity;

The past and present converge;

The future;

Chiasm, the intersection of time, embodiment, and identity;

Time will tell.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.2.2016
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-1877-3 / 1447318773
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-1877-4 / 9781447318774
Zustand	Neuware