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Search - Cultural Aging: Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds

Cultural Aging Life Course Lifestyle and Senior Worlds
Author: Stephen Katz

Getting older is not what it used to be. Unprecedented changes to longevity, demographic, and life course patterns are transforming the social roles and experiences of older people. Cultural Aging explores this phenomenon and focuses on what it means to grow older today. As Western populations age, positive images of aging that promote activity... more », autonomy, mobility, and choice have increased. On the one hand, these images defy traditionally negative stereotypes of decline, decrepitude, and dependency and create new opportunities for self-definition that stretch middle age into later life. On the other hand, the new aging animates an anti-aging culture, which potentially idealizes later life as an experience unburdened by the challenging material realities of growing older. This collection of essays looks at two general themes: the way that modern life course regimes have been defined historically by the professional sciences and the way that aging identities have been affected by the cultural and economic significance of consumer lifestyle markets. In the process, Katz offers a truly interdisciplinary approach to the subject that expands traditional gerontological theory by borrowing from the humanities, feminism, and cultural theory. Comments: "With this collection of imaginative, wide-ranging essays, Stephen Katz secures his place as his generation's foremost proponent of cultural aging. The volume recasts issues in gerontology through the lens of contemporary theories in the humanities and social sciences, as it raises new questions." - W. Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston "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, and sexuality. Katz tells us what we need to know to see through commodified formulations of the later years?that a critical curiosity serves to construct an unending panorama of worlds both for those who are old and those who have just begun the journey. It's quite a contribution." - Jay Gubrium, University of Missouri Stephen Katz is a Professor of Sociology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge, 1996. He has written widely on issues of aging and gerontology.

ISBN-13: 9781551115771
ISBN-10: 1551115778
Publication Date: 7/19/2005
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Broadview Press
Book Type: Paperback
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