ISBN:
9781317880158
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gilleard, Chris Cultures of Ageing : Self, Citizen and the Body
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Gerontology
;
Aging Social aspects
;
Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Cultural studies and ageing -- 'Postmodernity' and cultural fragmentation -- The centrality of ageing -- Notes -- 2 From political economy to the culture of personal identity -- The rise and fall of structured dependency theory -- Structured dependency theory in the UK -- Ageing in America -- From political economy to moral economy -- The cultural turn -- Notes -- 3 Retirement, identity and consumer society -- Social identities and postmodern culture
Abstract:
Self-identity and the blurring of retirement -- The state, retirement policy and the economic structure of later life -- Third-age identities and post-work society -- Class, cohort and retirement -- Gender and retirement -- Ageing in private: the role of family in suppressing/repressing later life identities -- Notes -- 4 Identity, self-care and staying young -- Self-definition and the technologies of the self -- Anti-ageing: resisting change by embracing the new -- Technologies of the self and personal care -- Age identity and the politics of the self -- Age, sex and power
Abstract:
Men and women and the postmodern menopause -- Fit to face down ageing: exercise and the work-out -- Age, identity and the 'experience society' -- Notes -- 5 The old person as citizen -- T.H. Marshall and all that -- The state, status and citizenship -- Grey capitalism and the role of pension funds -- Citizenship and governmentality -- Notes -- 6 Senior citizenship and contemporary social policy -- Citizens, stakeholders and pension policies -- Community care: the clientization of citizenship -- Long-term institutional care: choice and social exclusion -- Senior citizenship - avoiding closure
Abstract:
Notes -- 7 Ageing and its embodiment -- Embodiment and social theory -- The body as the 'true' foundation of ageing: confronting physicality -- Anti-ageing and the aesthetics of the body -- Ageism: the personal and the public -- Ageing: appearance, reality and then some -- Notes -- 8 Bio-ageing and the reproduction of the social -- Secular changes in late-life mortality and morbidity -- Natural lifespan and the prolongation of life -- Ageing and impoverishment -- Bodily ageing: emergence or submergence of elites? -- Seeking, not setting, limits -- Notes
Abstract:
9 Ageing, Alzheimer's and the uncivilized body -- Elias and the civilized body -- The post-war transformation of senility -- The branding of Alzheimer's and the scientific approach -- Alzheimer's and the state -- Alzheimer's - from need to risk -- Alzheimer's, personhood and the re-civilizing of senility -- Alzheimer's and sustainable ageing -- Notes -- 10 The inevitability of the cultural turn in ageing studies -- The implications of our argument for ageing studies -- Opening ageing out -- The cultural divide: third-age and fourth-age futures -- Yes, but … addressing potential criticisms
Abstract:
Notes
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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