Learning to be old gender, culture, and aging /
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...
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub.,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| 504 | # | # | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-241) and index. |
| 505 | 0 | # | |a Cultural myths and aging -- Fear of an aging population -- Sickness and other social roles of old people -- Overmedicating old Americans -- Healthy physical aging -- The politics of healthy aging -- Gender, class, and ethnicity -- Ageism -- Prescribed busyness and its antidotes -- A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging -- Conclusion: the paradoxes of aging. |
| 520 | # | # | |a 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 sect. |
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