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Title: |
The Ages of Life |
| Sub-title: |
Living and Aging in Conflict? |
| Series: |
Aging Studies |
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| Edited by: |
Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer |
| ISBN10-13: |
3837622126 : 9783837622126 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
225x148mm |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Weight: |
.410 Kg. |
| Published: |
Transcript Verlag - May 2013 |
| List Price: |
33.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Literary studies: general : Cultural studies : Illness & addiction: social aspects : Age groups: the elderly : Coping with old age |
| The binary construction of "young" and "old", which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange on gerontological research.The articles in this publication conceive the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism which focuses on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life course identity: aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life. |
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