Aging identity : a dialogue with postmodernism / Jason L. Powell and Tony Gilbert, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Jason L., 1971-

Contributor:

Powell, Jason L., 1971-

Gilbert, Tony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population aging.

Group identity.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Viewing ageing and identity through the critical lens of both contemporary gerontology theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine a vast range of issues, from disability to clothing to social philosophies and meanings of ageing.

Contents:

Phenomenologies of aging / Jason L. Powell and Tony Gilbert

"Making it up as you go along" : a personal account of ageing with cerebral palsydd / Claire Tregaskis

The absence of adam : prostate cancer and male identity / Antje Kampf

Social imagery, aging, and the life course : a postmodern assessment / Steven Arxer, John W. Muphy, Linda Belgrave

Age, sexuality, and the sporting body : an autoethnograpy of slipping around and through a state of "being healthy without feeling healthy" / Elizabeth Ettorre

"Not old" and "old" : postmodern identities in a new lifestage / Gail Wilson

Constructing identities : postmodernism, pragmatism, and a third way? / Rob Meadows and Susan Venn

Clothing, identity, and the embodiment of age / Julia Twigg

Redefining aging and identity : reinvention through education as a postmodern dynamic / Kathleen Moore and Lagretta T. Lenker.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61728-130-1

OCLC:

659561134