Learning to Be Old

Gender, Culture, and Aging

Margaret Cruikshank (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2009 | 2nd Revised edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-6593-7 (ISBN)

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What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is 'successful aging' our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to 'grow old gracefully'? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States 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. The second edition of Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Featuring new research and analysis, expanded sections on gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender aging and critical gerontology, and an updated chapter on feminist gerontology, the second edition even more thoroughly than the first looks at the variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging. Cruikshank pays special attention to the fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes that inform our understanding of age. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.

Margaret Cruikshank is lecturer in women's studies and faculty associate of the Center on Aging at the University of Maine.

Chapter 1 Cultural Myths and Aging Chapter 2 The Fear of an Aging Population Chapter 3 Sickness and Other Social Roles of Old People Chapter 4 Overmedicating Old Americans Chapter 5 Healthy Physical Aging Chapter 6 The Politics of Healthy Aging Chapter 7 Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Chapter 8 Ageism Chapter 9 Prescribed Busyness and its Antidotes Chapter 10 A Feminist's View of Gerontology and Women's Aging Chapter 11 Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Aging

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.1.2009
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 240 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7425-6593-9 / 0742565939
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-6593-7 / 9780742565937
Zustand	Neuware