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Alive and Kicking at All Ages Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Aging studies ; Volume 5.
- Aging Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aging Studies.
- Disability.
- Health.
- Identity.
- Gender.
- Narratives of Decline.
- Memory.
- Madness.
- Medicine.
- Sociology of Medicine.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Aging Studies.
- Disability.
- Health.
- Identity.
- Gender.
- Narratives of Decline.
- Memory.
- Madness.
- Medicine.
- Sociology of Medicine.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Kriebernegg et al. (eds.), Alive and Kicking Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Ulla Kriebernegg is an Associate Professor at the Department of American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and executive board member of the European Network in Aging Studies.
- Roberta Maierhofer is Professor of (Inter)American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and Adjunct Professor at Binghamton University, New York. Her research focuses on American Literature and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Transatlantic Cooperation in Education, Inter-American Studies and Age/Aging Studies.
- Barbara Ratzenböck (M.A.) is a research assistant at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Content 5 Re-Thinking Material Realities and Cultural Representations of Age and Aging 9 Ageility Studies 21 I May be Old and Sick, But I Am Still a Person 41 Health and Everyday Bodily Experiences of Old Mexican Women 65 Kwik-Fit versus Varying Speeds of Aging 81 Preemptive Biographies 101 Internalization or Social Comparison? 117 Combating Age Discrimination in the Workplace 131 "There's a reason we're here" Performative Autobiographics and Age Identity in Per former- Created Intergenerational Theatre 153 Images of Living and Ageing 169 She's Been Away 187 Illness and Love in Old Age 203 Uncanny Witnessing 221 Shaking off Shackles 243 "Old women that will not be kept away" 259 Scrutinizing the "Medical Glance" 275 Wisdom versus Frailty in Ursula K. Le Guin's Voices and Doris Lessing's "The Reason for It" 285 From Cane to Chair 297 Contributors 319
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839425824
- 3839425824
- OCLC:
- 889814211
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