Beschreibung:
A clear, contemporary, and student-friendly exploration of age and ageing as it relates to culture and society.
Chapter 1: Age Studies: What is it and why do we need it?Chapter Two: Class stratification and ageChapter Three: Gender Studies as a Paradigm for Age StudiesChapter Four: Constructing and deconstructing ages and stages of the life courseChapter Five: Identity and ageChapter Six: Age and EmbodimentChapter Seven: Sexuality through the life courseChapter Eight: Health, illness and normality through the life courseChapter Nine: Representing Ages and StagesChapter Ten: Ages and Generations in interactionChapter Eleven: Telling our own stories: Developing age consciousness and authentic age identitiesChapter Twelve: Concluding ThoughtsReferences