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Cultural Aging : Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds / Stephen Katz.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Stephen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aging.
- Gerontology.
- Older people.
- Genre:
- Libros electronicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""With this collection of imaginative, wide-ranging essays, Stephen Katz secures his place as his generation's foremost proponent of cultural aging.""--W. Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One: Aging, Life Course, and the Cultural Politics of Expertise
- Chapter 1: Imagining the Life Span: From Premodern Miracles to Postmodern Fantasies
- Chapter 2: Charcot's Older Women: Bodies of Knowledge at the Interface of Aging Studies and Women's Studies
- Chapter 3: The Government of Detail: The Case of Social Policy on Aging / Katz, Stephen / Green, Bryan
- Chapter 4: Reflections on the Gerontological Handbook
- Chapter 5: Critical Gerontological Theory: Intellectual Fieldwork and the Nomadic Life of Ideas
- Chapter 6: Creativity Across the Life Course? Titian, Michelangelo, and Older Artist Narratives / Katz, Stephen / Campbel, Erin
- Part Two: Lifestyle and the Fashioning of Senior Worlds
- Chapter 7: Busy Bodies: Activity, Aging, and the Management of Everyday Life
- Chapter 8: Exemplars of Retirement: Identity and Agency Between Lifestyle and Social Movement / Katz, Stephen / Laliberte-Rudman, Debbie
- Chapter 9: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body / Marshall, Barbara L. / Katz, Stephen
- Chapter 10: Growing Older Without Aging? Postmodern Time and Senior Markets
- Chapter 11: Spaces of Age, Snowbirds, and the Gerontology of Mobility: The Elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida
- Afterword: Aging Together
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-261) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781442602083
- 1442602082
- OCLC:
- 999655013
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