| Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life Contributor(s): Featherstone, Mike (Editor), Wernick, Andrew (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415112591 ISBN-13: 9780415112598 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 Annotation: We all have a finite life span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universality of the aging 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 Aging: Cultural" "Representations of Later Life" changes this. The contributors discuss images of aging which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies of today. They address themes such as: body and self image in everyday interaction; experience and identity in old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly; images of aging used by Government agencies in health education campaigns; the diversity of historical representations of the elderly; gender images of aging; images of senility and second childhood; images of health, illness and death. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gerontology - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.26 |
| LCCN: 94049031 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.12" W x 9.2" (1.08 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We 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; images of ageing used by Government agencies in health education campaigns; the diversity of historical representations of the elderly; gender images of ageing; images of senility and second childhood; images of health, illness and death. |
