Kriebernegg / Maierhofer / Ratzenböck Alive and Kicking at All Ages

Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2582-4
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Aging Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kriebernegg, Ulla

Maierhofer, Roberta

Ratzenböck, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Content;5
2;Re-Thinking Material Realities and Cultural Representations of Age and Aging;9
3;MATERIAL REALITIES;19
3.1;Ageility Studies. The Interplay of Critical Approaches in Age Studies and Disability Studies;21
3.2;I May be Old and Sick, But I Am Still a Person;41
3.3;Health and Everyday Bodily Experiences of Old Mexican Women;65
3.4;Kwik-Fit versus Varying Speeds of Aging;81
3.5;Preemptive Biographies. Life and the Life Course in the Age of Security Administration;101
3.6;Internalization or Social Comparison? An Empirical Investigation of the Influence of Media (Re)Presentations of Age on the Subjective Health Perception and Age Experience of Older People;117
3.7;Combating Age Discrimination in the Workplace A Study of the United States’ Rights-Based Response;131
4;CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS;151
4.1;“There’s a reason we’re here” Per formative Autobiographics and Age Identity in Per former-Created Intergenerational Theatre;153
4.2;Images of Living and Ageing Counter-Cultural Constructions of Health and Wisdom;169
4.3;She’s Been Away Ageing, Madness and Memory;187
4.4;Illness and Love in Old Age. Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge;203
4.5;Uncanny Witnessing. Dementia, Narrative, and Identity in Fiction by Munro and Franzen;221
4.6;Shaking off Shackles. LTC Havens in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” and The Other Sister;243
4.7;“Old women that will not be kept away”. Undermining Ageist Discourse with Invisibility and Per formance;259
4.8;Scrutinizing the “Medical Glance” Bodily Decay, Disease and Death in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman;275
4.9;Wisdom versus Frailty in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Voices and Doris Lessing’s “The Reason for It”;285
4.10;From Cane to Chair. Old Age and Storytelling in Juvenile Literature by Hawthorne, Goodrich, and Mogridge;297
5;Contributors;319

Über Autor(innen)

Ratzenböck, Barbara
Barbara Ratzenböck, geb. 1985, ist Senior Scientist am Zentrum für Inter-Amerikanische Studien der Universität Graz. In ihrer Forschung befasst sie sich mit den Verschränkungen von Digitalisierungsprozessen, (Medien-)Generationen und Gender.

Maierhofer, Roberta
Roberta Maierhofer ist Professorin für Amerikanistik und Leiterin des Zentrums für Inter-Amerikanische Studien der Universität Graz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Transatlantische Bildungskooperationen, Interkulturalität, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, kulturelle Gerontologie und Alternswissenschaften.

Ulla Kriebernegg is an Associate Professor at the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz, Austria, and chair 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.