Alive and kicking at all ages : cultural constructions of health and life course identity / Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck (eds.).
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Kriebernegg, Ulla (editor.)
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Maierhofer, Roberta (editor.)
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Ratzenböck, Barbara (editor.)
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European Association for American Studies (sponsoring body.)
- ISBN 9783837625820
- Publicerad: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2014]
- Engelska 324 pages
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Serie: Aging studies ; 5
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- Re-thinking material realities and cultural representations of age and aging Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck -- Material realities -- Ageility studies the interplay of criticial approaches in age studies and disability studies Leni Marshall -- I may be old and sick, but I am still a person Beverly Lunsford -- Health and everyday bodily experiences of old Mexican women Meiko Makita -- Kwik-fit versus various speeds of aging Elena Bendien -- preemtive biographies life and the life course in the age of security administration Rüdiger Kunow -- Internalization or social comparison? an empirical investigation of the influence of media (re)presentations of age on the subjective health perception and age experience of older people Julian Wangler -- Combating age discrimination in the workplace a study of the United States' rights-based response Elisabeth Boulot -- Cultural representations -- "There's a reason we're here" performative autobiographies and age identity in performer-created intergenerational theatre Sally Chivers, David Barnet, Jacquie Eales, and Janet Fast -- Images of living and ageing counter-cultural constructions of health and wisdom Ricca Edmondson and Eileen Fairhurst -- She's been away ageing, madness and memory Sherryl Wilson Illness and love in old age Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge Meike Dackweiler -- Uncanny Witnessing dementia, narrative, and identity in fiction by Munro and Franzen Amelia DeFalco -- Shaking off shackles LTC Havens in The bear came over the mountain and The other sister Patricia Life -- "Old women that will not be kept away" undermining ageist discourse with invisibility and performance Ellen Matlok-Ziemann -- Scrutinizing the "medical glance" bodily decay, disease and death in Margaret Atwood's The edible woman Marta Cerezo Moreno -- Wisdom versus frailty in Ursula K. Guin's Voices and Doris Lessing's The reason for it Marciel Oró-Piqueras -- From cane to chair old age and storytelling in juvenile literature by Hawthorne, Goodrich, and Mogridge Eriko Ogihara-Schuck.
Ämnesord
- Older people -- Congresses. (LCSH)
- Aging -- Congresses. (LCSH)
Klassifikation
- HQ1061 (LCC)
- HQ (ämneskategori)
- 305.26 (DDC)
- Oabkbc (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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