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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911095164903321
• Autore: Powell Jason L. <1971->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
• ISBN: 1-61728-130-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PowellJason L. <1971->; GilbertTony
• Disciplina: 305.2601
• Soggetti: Population aging; Group identity; Postmodernism
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Viewing ageing and identity through the critical lens of both contemporary gerontology theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine a vast range of issues, from disability to clothing to social philosophies and meanings of ageing.