Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging / Margaret Cruikshank.
- 作者： Cruikshank, Margaret.
- 出版： Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. c2009.
- 主題： Aging--psychology. , Attitude to Health. , Social values , Women--Psychology. , Prejudice. , Aged.
- 版本：2nd ed.
- ISBN： 9780742565937 (hbk) 、 0742565939 (hbk) 、 9780742565944 (pbk) :: US$27.95 、 0742565947 (pbk.) 、 9780742565951 (ebk) 、 0742565955 (ebk)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-241) and index.
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- 系統號： 005193917 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
In the second edition of Learning to Be Old, Margaret Cruikshank examines the social construction of aging, especially women's aging, from a number of different angles: medical, economic, cultural, and political. 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. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.
內容註
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