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cultural constructions of health and life course identity

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Table of Contents

Re-thinking material realities and cultural representations of age and aging -- Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck
Material realities --
Ageility studies the interplay of criticial approaches in age studies and disability studies -- Leni Marshall
I may be old and sick, but I am still a person -- Beverly Lunsford
Health and everyday bodily experiences of old Mexican women -- Meiko Makita
Kwik-fit versus various speeds of aging -- Elena Bendien
preemtive biographies life and the life course in the age of security administration -- Rüdiger Kunow
Internalization or social comparison? an empirical investigation of the influence of media (re)presentations of age on the subjective health perception and age experience of older people -- Julian Wangler
Combating age discrimination in the workplace a study of the United States' rights-based response -- Elisabeth Boulot
Cultural representations --
"There's a reason we're here" performative autobiographies and age identity in performer-created intergenerational theatre -- Sally Chivers, David Barnet, Jacquie Eales, and Janet Fast
Images of living and ageing counter-cultural constructions of health and wisdom -- Ricca Edmondson and Eileen Fairhurst
She's been away ageing, madness and memory -- Sherryl Wilson
Illness and love in old age Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge -- Meike Dackweiler
Uncanny Witnessing dementia, narrative, and identity in fiction by Munro and Franzen -- Amelia DeFalco
Shaking off shackles LTC Havens in The bear came over the mountain and The other sister -- Patricia Life
"Old women that will not be kept away" undermining ageist discourse with invisibility and performance -- Ellen Matlok-Ziemann
Scrutinizing the "medical glance" bodily decay, disease and death in Margaret Atwood's The edible woman -- Marta Cerezo Moreno
Wisdom versus frailty in Ursula K. Guin's Voices and Doris Lessing's The reason for it -- Marciel Oró-Piqueras
From cane to chair old age and storytelling in juvenile literature by Hawthorne, Goodrich, and Mogridge-- Eriko Ogihara-Schuck.

Edition Notes

International conference proceedings, 2012, Izmir, Turkey.

"This volume came out of the biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) in Izmir/Turkey in the spring of 2012." page 10

Includes bibliographical references.

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Bielefeld
Series
Aging studies -- volume 5, Aging studies -- v. 5.
Copyright Date
2014

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305.26
Library of Congress
HQ1061 .A559 2014, HQ1061.A559 2014

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324 pages
Number of pages
324

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OL31167212M
Internet Archive
isbn_9783837625820
ISBN 10
3837625826
ISBN 13
9783837625820, 9783839425824
LCCN
2014399414
OCLC/WorldCat
874531532

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