Over the last decade, Cultural Gerontology has emerged as one of the most vibrant
elements of writing about age (Twigg, J., & Martin, W.(Eds.)(2015). The Routledge handbook …

Clothes are central to the ways older bodies are experienced, presented and understood
within culture, so that dress forms a significant, though neglected, element in the constitution …

With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct
field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally published in 2001, was the first …

Abstract The current North American successful aging movement offers a particular
normative model of how to age well, one tied to specific notions of individualist personhood …

All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions vis-à-vis the
expressive, referential, interactional and social implications of their speech. This book brings …

A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of
aging. How old am I? Don't ask, don't tell. As the baby boomers approach their sixth or …

'Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment'outlines and develops an argument about the
emergence of a 'new ageing'during the second half of the twentieth century and its …

Drawing on insights from feminist gerontology, the article discusses the ways in which body,
gender, and age intersect, arguing for the importance of recognizing the centrality of the …

Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America
today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other …

Fashion and age sit uncomfortably together. Fashion inhabits a world of youthful beauty, of
fantasy, imagination, allure. Its discourses are frenetic and frothy; its images glamorous and …