ISBN:
978-0-226-31073-2
,
0-226-31073-6
Language:
English
Pages:
294 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Ageism
;
Aging / Social aspects
;
Aging / Psychological aspects
;
Older people / Social conditions
;
Gesellschaft
;
Psychologie
;
Diskriminierung
;
Alter
;
Altern
;
USA
;
USA
;
Altern
;
Alter
;
Diskriminierung
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The new regimes of decline -- A historical tsunami -- The hidden coercions of ageism -- The eskimo on the ice floe -- Is it aging or ageism that causes the pain? -- The mystery of Carolyn Heilbrun's suicide -- Fear of aging, ageism, and the "duty to die" -- The oldest have borne most -- Katrina and the politics of later life -- In the feminist country of later life -- Hormone nostalgia -- Estrogen, not menopause, is the public health menace -- Plastic wrap -- Turning against cosmetic surgery -- Improving sexuality across the life course -- Why sex for women is likely to get better with age -- Our best and longest-running story -- Why is telling progress narrative so necessary, and so difficult? -- The daughters' club -- Does Emma Woodhouse's father suffer from "dementia"? -- Overcoming the terror of forgetfulness -- Why America's escalating dread of memory loss is dangerous to our human relations, our mental health, and public policy -- Elegies and romances of later life -- Are there better ways to tell our saddest later-life stories? -- Afterword: The next angels in America
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
