Aged by culture / Margaret Morganroth Gullette.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Aging > Social aspects. Ageism. Identity (Psychology) Autobiography > Social aspects. Older people > Social conditions > Study and teaching. Old age > Study and teaching.
Online Access:	Table of contents

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.

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