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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460009803321

Titolo

Aging identity [[electronic resource] ] : a dialogue with postmodernism / / Jason L. Powell and Tony Gilbert, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2009

ISBN

1-61728-130-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PowellJason L. <1971->

GilbertTony

Disciplina

305.2601

Soggetti

Population aging

Group identity

Postmodernism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Phenomenologies of aging / Jason L. Powell and Tony Gilbert -- "Making it up as you go along" : a personal account of ageing with cerebral palsydd / Claire Tregaskis -- The absence of adam : prostate cancer and male identity / Antje Kampf -- Social imagery, aging, and the life course : a postmodern assessment / Steven Arxer, John W. Muphy, Linda Belgrave -- Age, sexuality, and the sporting body : an autoethnograpy of slipping around and through a state of "being healthy without feeling healthy" / Elizabeth Ettorre -- "Not old" and "old" : postmodern identities in a new lifestage / Gail Wilson -- Constructing identities : postmodernism, pragmatism, and a third way? / Rob Meadows and Susan Venn -- Clothing, identity, and the embodiment of age / Julia Twigg -- Redefining aging and identity : reinvention through education as a postmodern dynamic / Kathleen Moore and Lagretta T. Lenker.