ISBN:
9780415112581
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (318 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Images of Aging : Cultural Representations of Later Life
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The contributors in this book discuss images of aging which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. They address such themes as gender images of aging, images of health, illness and death
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; INTRODUCTION; IMAGES OF OLD AGE IN AMERICA, 1790-1970: A VISION AND A RE-VISION; IMAGES OF POSITIVE AGING: A CASE STUDY OF RETIREMENT CHOICE MAGAZINE; THE STATUS AND IMAGE OF THE ELDERLY IN JAPAN: UNDERSTANDING THE PATERNALISTIC IDEOLOGY; IMAGINING THE LIFE-SPAN: FROM PREMODERN MIRACLES TO POSTMODERN FANTASIES; TRIBUTE TO THE OLDER WOMAN: PSYCHOANALYSIS, FEMINISM, AND AGEISM; IMAGING THE AGING OF MEN; CHANGING IMAGES OF AGING AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE LIFE COURSE
Description / Table of Contents:
BACK TO OUR FUTURES: IMAGING SECOND CHILDHOODCHILDREN'S DRAWINGS OF GRANDPARENTS: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMAGES; FROM GLOOM TO BOOM: AGE, IDENTITY AND TARGET MARKETING; CHAN IS MISSING: THE DEATH OF THE AGING ASIAN EYE; CREATING MEMORIES: SOME IMAGES OF AGING IN MASS TOURISM; POST-BODIES, AGING AND VIRTUAL REALITY; AGING AND IDENTITY: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SOMATIZATION OF THE SELF; FROM GRIM REAPER TO CHEERY CONDOM: IMAGES OF AGING AND DEATH IN AUSTRALIAN AIDS EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS; SELLING FUNERALS, IMAGING DEATH
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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