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Images of aging : cultural representations of later life / edited by Mike Featherstone and Andrew Wernick.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people in popular culture--Congresses.
- Older people in popular culture.
- Ageism--Congresses.
- Ageism.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Images of aging.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
- Summary:
- We all have a finite life span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universality of the aging process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. "Images of Aging: Cultural" "Representations of Later Life" changes this. The contributors discuss images of aging which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies of today. They address themes such as: body and self image in everyday interaction; experience and identity in old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly; images of aging used by Government agencies in health education campaigns; the diversity of historical representations of the elderly; gender images of aging; images of senility and second childhood; images of health, illness and death.
- Notes:
- Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at Trent University, Peterborough, Ont., in May 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415112583 :
- 0415112591
- OCLC:
- 31867299
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