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Aged by culture / Margaret Morganroth Gullette.

by Gullette, Margaret Morganroth.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Aging -- Social aspects.

Identity (Psychology)

Autobiography -- Social aspects.

Older people -- Social conditions -- Study and teaching.

Old age -- Study and teaching.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/2003012640.html

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2003012640.html

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003012640.html

0226310612 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780226310619 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226310620 (pbk : alk. paper)

9780226310626 (pbk : alk. paper)

267 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

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