| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Images of old age in America, 1790-1970: a vision and a re-vision / Andrew Achenbaum -- Images of positive aging : a case study of Retirement choice magazine / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth -- The Status and image of the elderly in Japan : understanding the paternalistic ideology / Shuichi Wada -- Imagining the life-span : from premodern miracles to postmodern fantasies / Steven Katz -- Tribute to the older woman : psychoanalysis, feminism, and ageism / Kathleen Woodward -- Imaging the aging of men / Jeff Hearn -- Changing images of aging and the social construction of the life course / Tamara K. Hareven -- Back to our futures : imaging second childhood / Jenny Hockey and Allison James -- Children's drawings of grandparents : a quantitative analysis of images / Cornelia Hummel, Jean-Charles Rey, and Christian J. Lalive d'Epinay -- From gloom to boom : age, identity and target marketing / Kimberly Anne Sawchuk -- Chan is missing: the death of the aging Asian eye / Norman K. Denzin -- Creating memories : some images of aging in mass tourism / David Chaney -- Post-bodies, aging and virtual reality / Mike Featherstone -- Aging and identity : some reflections on the somatization of the self / Bryan S. Turner -- From grim reaper to cheery condom : images of aging and death in Australian AIDS education campaigns / John Tulloch -- Selling funerals, imaging death / Andrew Wernick |
| Summary |
We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life changes this. The contributors discuss images of ageing which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. They address themes such as: body and self image in everyday interaction; experience and identity on old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly; images of age |
| Analysis |
Humans Ageing |
| Notes |
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at Trent University, Peterborough, Ont., in May 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Older people in popular culture -- Congresses
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Ageism -- Congresses
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Older people in popular culture -- Congresses
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Ageism -- Congresses
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Aged -- sociology
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Aging -- ethnology
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Culture -- history
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Aging.
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Ageism
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Older people in popular culture
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Featherstone, Mike, editor.
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Wernick, Andrew, editor.
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| LC no. |
94049031 |
| ISBN |
0203397444 |
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9780203397442 |
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9786610053261 |
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661005326X |
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9780415112581 |
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0415112583 |
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9780415112598 |
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0415112591 |
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9781134831081 |
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1134831080 |
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9781134831036 |
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113483103X |
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9781134831074 |
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1134831072 |
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