UID:
edocfu_9958106111002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (318 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-83107-2
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1-134-83108-0
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0-203-39784-3
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1-280-05326-7
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0-203-39744-4
Inhalt:
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; imag
Anmerkung:
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at Trent University, Peterborough, Ont., in May 1992.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; INTRODUCTION; IMAGES OF OLD AGE IN AMERICA, 1790-1970: A VISION AND A RE-VISION; IMAGES OF POSITIVE AGING: A CASE STUDY OF RETIREMENT CHOICE MAGAZINE; THE STATUS AND IMAGE OF THE ELDERLY IN JAPAN: UNDERSTANDING THE PATERNALISTIC IDEOLOGY; IMAGINING THE LIFE-SPAN: FROM PREMODERN MIRACLES TO POSTMODERN FANTASIES; TRIBUTE TO THE OLDER WOMAN: PSYCHOANALYSIS, FEMINISM, AND AGEISM; IMAGING THE AGING OF MEN; CHANGING IMAGES OF AGING AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE LIFE COURSE
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BACK TO OUR FUTURES: IMAGING SECOND CHILDHOODCHILDREN'S DRAWINGS OF GRANDPARENTS: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMAGES; FROM GLOOM TO BOOM: AGE, IDENTITY AND TARGET MARKETING; CHAN IS MISSING: THE DEATH OF THE AGING ASIAN EYE; CREATING MEMORIES: SOME IMAGES OF AGING IN MASS TOURISM; POST-BODIES, AGING AND VIRTUAL REALITY; AGING AND IDENTITY: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SOMATIZATION OF THE SELF; FROM GRIM REAPER TO CHEERY CONDOM: IMAGES OF AGING AND DEATH IN AUSTRALIAN AIDS EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS; SELLING FUNERALS, IMAGING DEATH
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-11259-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-11258-3
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203397442
