Aged by culture, Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Type
Label
Aged by culture, Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-248) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Aged by culture
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
52514302
Responsibility statement
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Table Of Contents
Part one: Cultural urgencies -- Trapped in the new time machines -- True secrets of being aged by culture -- "The Xers" versus "the boomers" : a contrived war -- Perilous parenting : the deaths of children and the fear of aging-into-the-midlife -- The high costs of middle-ageism -- Part two: Theorizing age resistantly -- What is age studies? -- Age identity revisited -- From life storytelling to age autobiography -- Acting age on stage : age-appropriate casting, the default body, and valuing the property of having an age -- Age studies as cultural studies : beyond slice-of-life