Let's face it: almost everyone fears growing older. We worry about losing our looks, our
health, our jobs, our self-esteem—and being supplanted in work and love by younger …

From the laughing clubs of India and robotic granny minders of Japan to the" Flexsecurity"
system of Denmark and the elderscapes of Florida, experts in this collection bring readers …

In the 1920s, research on the endocrine glands–especially the sex glands–was widely
expected to lead to revolutionary new ways of improving human life. The medical …

This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close
readings of novels by major 20th century novelists, compared with the more dominant …

Taking on the neglected issue of the short story's relationship to literary Modernism, Claire
Drewery examines works by Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and …

It is now widely accepted that''age''and''ageing''are cultural concepts that are open to
question. The thinking encouraged by critical gerontology has been crucially important in …

Focusing on the work of the physiologist Eugen Steinach and the clinician and activist
Magnus Hirschfeld, this essay explores the complex interplay of experimental biology and …

This chapter, divided into two parts, discusses the problem of the ageing body in an
increasingly age-conscious society. The first part introduces the constructionist critique of the …

Distinguished gerontologists,'guardians of later life'who had long kept age and ageism at the
heart of their work, were asked by the author why the turn to ageism had not been able to …

In 1931, the doyen of British physiologists and pioneering endocrine researcher, Sir Edward
Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935; until 1918, Edward Schafer), declared that physiology had …