Katz Cultural Aging

Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4426-0208-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

"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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Katz, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, Stephen Katz and Bryan Green 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, Stephen Katz and Erin Campbell 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, Stephen Katz and Debbie Laliberte-Rudman Chapter 9: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body, Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz 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

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Über Autor(innen)

KatzStephen:

Stephen Katz is a Professor of Sociology at Trent Unversity in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge, 1996. He has written widely on issues of aging and gerontology.