Product Description

The contributors in this book discuss images of aging which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. They address such themes as gender images of aging, images of health, illness and death.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #678970 in Books
• Published on: 1995-08-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

From the Back Cover
We all have a finite life span. We are born, we get older and we die. Given the universality 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 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 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.

About the Author
W. Andrew Achenbaum, University of Michigan; Mike Hepworth, University of Aberdeen; Shuichi Wada, Waseda University, Japan; Stephen Katz, Trent University, Canada; Kathleen Woodward, University of Wisconsin; Geraldine Finn, Carleton University, Canada; Jeff Hearn, University of Bradford; Tamara K Hareven, University of Delaware and Harvard University; Jenny Hockey, University of Hull; Allison James, University of Hull; Cornelia Hummel, University of Geneva; Jean-Charles Rey, University of Geneva; Christian J Lalive d'Epinay, University of Geneva; Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University; Norman k Denzin, University of Illinois; David Chaney, University of Durham; Bryan S Turner Deakin University, Australia; John Tulloch, Charles Sturt University, Australia