03482nam 2200613Ia 450 991017099390332120200520144314.01-134-83107-21-134-83108-00-203-39784-31-280-05326-70-203-39744-410.4324/9780203397442 (CKB)1000000000250779(EBL)179515(OCoLC)475884503(SSID)ssj0000299321(PQKBManifestationID)11248037(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299321(PQKBWorkID)10238498(PQKB)10062452(MiAaPQ)EBC179515(OCoLC)56924528(EXLCZ)99100000000025077919941227d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImages of ageing cultural representations of later life /edited by Mike Featherstone and Andrew WernickLondon ;New York Routledge19951 online resource (318 p.)Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at Trent University, Peterborough, Ont., in May 1992.0-415-11259-1 0-415-11258-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; INTRODUCTION; IMAGES OF OLD AGE IN AMERICA, 1790-1970: A VISION AND A RE-VISION; IMAGES OF POSITIVE AGING: A CASE STUDY OF RETIREMENT CHOICE MAGAZINE; THE STATUS AND IMAGE OF THE ELDERLY IN JAPAN: UNDERSTANDING THE PATERNALISTIC IDEOLOGY; IMAGINING THE LIFE-SPAN: FROM PREMODERN MIRACLES TO POSTMODERN FANTASIES; TRIBUTE TO THE OLDER WOMAN: PSYCHOANALYSIS, FEMINISM, AND AGEISM; IMAGING THE AGING OF MEN; CHANGING IMAGES OF AGING AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE LIFE COURSEBACK TO OUR FUTURES: IMAGING SECOND CHILDHOODCHILDREN'S DRAWINGS OF GRANDPARENTS: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMAGES; FROM GLOOM TO BOOM: AGE, IDENTITY AND TARGET MARKETING; CHAN IS MISSING: THE DEATH OF THE AGING ASIAN EYE; CREATING MEMORIES: SOME IMAGES OF AGING IN MASS TOURISM; POST-BODIES, AGING AND VIRTUAL REALITY; AGING AND IDENTITY: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SOMATIZATION OF THE SELF; FROM GRIM REAPER TO CHEERY CONDOM: IMAGES OF AGING AND DEATH IN AUSTRALIAN AIDS EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS; SELLING FUNERALS, IMAGING DEATHWe 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; imagOlder people in popular cultureCongressesAgeismCongressesOlder people in popular cultureAgeism305.26Featherstone Mike143807Wernick Andrew115574MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910170993903321Images of ageing4193561UNINA