Alive and Kicking at All Ages
Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity
The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role the notion of health plays in such an interaction.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Content
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Re-Thinking Material Realities and Cultural Representations of Age and Aging
Seiten 9 - 18 -
Material Realities
Ageility Studies
Seiten 21 - 40 -
I May be Old and Sick, But I Am Still a Person
Seiten 41 - 64 -
Health and Everyday Bodily Experiences of Old Mexican Women
Seiten 65 - 80 -
Kwik-Fit versus Varying Speeds of Aging
Seiten 81 - 100 -
Preemptive Biographies
Seiten 101 - 116 -
Internalization or Social Comparison?
Seiten 117 - 130 -
Combating Age Discrimination in the Workplace
Seiten 131 - 150 -
Cultural Representations
"There's a reason we're here" Performative Autobiographics and Age Identity in Per former- Created Intergenerational Theatre
Seiten 153 - 168 -
Images of Living and Ageing
Seiten 169 - 186 -
She's Been Away
Seiten 187 - 202 -
Illness and Love in Old Age
Seiten 203 - 220 -
Uncanny Witnessing
Seiten 221 - 242 -
Shaking off Shackles
Seiten 243 - 258 -
"Old women that will not be kept away"
Seiten 259 - 274 -
Scrutinizing the "Medical Glance"
Seiten 275 - 284 -
Wisdom versus Frailty in Ursula K. Le Guin's Voices and Doris Lessing's "The Reason for It"
Seiten 285 - 296 -
From Cane to Chair
Seiten 297 - 318 -
Contributors
Seiten 319 - 324
4 March 2014, 324 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2582-0
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