Learning to be old [[electronic resource] ] : gender, culture, and aging / / Margaret Cruikshank
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Cruikshank Margaret
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| Titolo: |
Learning to be old [[electronic resource] ] : gender, culture, and aging / / Margaret Cruikshank
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2013 |
| Edizione: | 3rd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.26 |
| Soggetto topico: | Aging - Psychology - United States |
| Older people - United States | |
| Aging - United States | |
| Social values - United States | |
| Social status - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cultural myths and aging -- Fear of an aging population -- Sickness and other social roles of old people -- Overmedicating old Americans -- Healthy physical aging -- The politics of healthy aging -- Class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender -- Ageism -- Countercultural gerontology -- A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | <span><span>Margaret Cruikshank's </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Learning to Be Old </span><span>examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. </span></span> |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Learning to be old |
| ISBN: | 1-299-14002-5 |
| 1-4422-1366-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462948303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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