Cultural Aging - Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds

Cultural Aging - Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds

von: Stephen Katz

University of Toronto Press, 2019

ISBN: 9781442602083

Sprache: Englisch

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Cultural Aging - Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds



  Contents 7  
  Acknowledgements 9  
  Introduction 11  
  Part One: Aging, Life Course, and the Cultural Politics of Expertise 23  
  Chapter 1: Imagining the Life Span: From Premodern Miracles to Postmodern Fantasies 23  
  Chapter 2: Charcot’s Older Women: Bodies of Knowledge at the Interface of Aging Studies and Women’s Studies 37  
  Chapter 3: The Government of Detail: The Case of Social Policy on Aging 53  
  Chapter 4: Reflections on the Gerontological Handbook 70  
  Chapter 5: Critical Gerontological Theory: Intellectual Fieldwork and the Nomadic Life of Ideas 85  
  Chapter 6: Creativity Across the Life Course? Titian, Michelangelo, and Older Artist Narratives 101  
  Part Two: Lifestyle and the Fashioning of Senior Worlds 121  
  Chapter 7: Busy Bodies: Activity, Aging, and the Management of Everyday Life 121  
  Chapter 8: Exemplars of Retirement: Identity and Agency Between Lifestyle and Social Movement 140  
  Chapter 9: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body 161  
  Chapter 10: Growing Older Without Aging? Postmodern Time and Senior Markets 188  
  Chapter 11: Spaces of Age, Snowbirds, and the Gerontology of Mobility: The Elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida 202  
  Afterword: Aging Together 233  
  References 235  
  Index 263  

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