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 …

Stephen Katz opens our eyes to the exhilarating possibilities for the aging experience. His
analytic lenses touch on issues of governmentality, identity, agency, embodiment, gender …

First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various
forms that constitute" life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only …

The book originated from our recognition that although a growing international multi-
disciplinary interest in ageing and place had, over the years, been responsible for a rich and …

The article takes a feminist approach to gerontology. It examines the stereotypes of ageism
that derive from the relationship between culture and old age. It establishes the …

For three years, Ruth E. Ray visited and participated in eight writing groups at six senior
centers in inner-city and suburban Detroit, looking for ways in which the elderly fashion their …

En este artículo se desarrollan los planteamientos de la investigación gerontológica
feminista. Se analizan los estereotipos edadistas que tienen su origen en la relación entre …

Thema der advokatorischen Ethik (vgl. Brumlik 2017) sind die Prinzipien des bildenden,
erziehenden und beschützenden Umgangs mündiger Menschen mit Menschen die …

In lively, accessible prose, this book expands the reach and depth of age studies. A review
of age studies methods in theory, literature, and practice leads readers to see how their own …

This chapter addresses critical gerontology as a pragmatic and nomadic thought-space
across which ideas flow and become exchanged, rather than as a kind of model, theory, or …