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1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) |
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SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory |
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SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 : Constructing the Body of Age Studies; Analytical Use; Barriers and Words; Analysis, Advocacy, and Activism; Inquiry; A Roadmap; Chapter 2 : Deconstructing the Body Through Age Studies:; Constructing Age; Degendering Age; Abjection; Potential; Chapter 3 : Ambiguous Loss, Ambiguous Gain: Age Studies Analyses in Menopause and Beyond; Menopause; Menopause Mythology; Menopause: Questionable Wisdom; Learning to Be Old: Help Wanted; Learning to Be Old: Help Found; Ambiguous Loss |
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Chapter 4 : Changing Bodies and Changing Minds with Doris Lessing's The Diaries of Jane SomersText; Otherdaughter: Taking Care; Giving Care; Material Progress and New Ideas; Context; Materialism and Feminism; Didacticism; And, And, And -- Chapter 5 : Lucille Clifton's Poetic Perspective and Aging; Exemplar: Clifton; Historical Context; Contemporary Context; Poetic Context; Counterpoint and Future Context; Chapter 6 : Storytelling and Cultural Transmission, with Louise Erdrich's Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse; The Story's Story: Old Woman Spider (Cherokee) |
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Generational Functionality in Traditional Girst Nation CulturesStories' Historical Functions in First Nation Cultures; Storytellers' function in contemporary first nation cultures; Group Individuals: Story as Context; The Story of Last Report; Othereldering; A Possibility: Regardless of Time -- Chapter 7 : Rewriting Death, Rewriting Life; Re-membering the Field; Rewriting Death, Rewriting Life; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Aging -- Social aspects
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Older women.
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Older people.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Identity (Psychology)
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elderly.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Aging -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Identity (Psychology)
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Older people
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Older women
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438456980 |
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1438456980 |
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