Acculturating Age : Approaches to Cultural Gerontology

352 p.

• Información

  ISBN: 9788484094920

  Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/9788484094920

  MATERIAS

  • Factores que afectan el comportamiento social
  • Communities, Classes, Races
• En este volumen

  • List of Figures and Images
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Age-Coding : Negotiated Age Identities and Constructions of the Other
  • Narrative : Self and Identity : Explorations in Theoretical Approaches to Narrative Identities and the Construction of Self in Later Life
  • Cultural Beliefs and Concerns for Healthy Sexuality in Late Life Among Yoruba Adults in South West Nigeria
  • I Fell out of my Standing : Falls Narratives, Ageism and Socio-Medical Understanding of Falls in Older Persons
  • A Bridge of Culture Between Research, Elderly Women and Social Care?
  • Older People's Meaning of Everyday Life and the Lived Body
  • Do the Elderly Desire Culturally Prescribed Care and Reciprocity? : a Study of Old Age Home Residents in India
  • Stories of Belonging – a Tapestry of Stories : Using Narrative Enquiry and Visual Art to Investigate Individual and Collective Identity Within a Residential Aged Care Facility
  • Identity Work With Creative Methods : Older Adults as Graphic and Personal Novelists
  • Our Pathway to Age and the Holding Action of Art.
  • Deep Time and Human Time : The Geological Representation of Ageing in Contemporary Literature
  • Dorian Gray's Fall from Grace, the Price to Pay for Immortality
  • The Days of Darkness in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Salvador Espriu
  • From the Young Student to the Old Caxtonian : Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Lifetime Reflections on Victorian Ageing
  • Wrinkles and Selves : Time and Memory Through the Ageing Body in Penelope Lively's Spiderweb and Doris Lessing's Love, Again
  • Good Old Men in the New South : Portraits of Elderly Male Characters in the Fiction of Ellen Glasgow
  • Language, Identity and Images of Ageing in Juan Rulfo's El Llano en llamas
  • The Ethical Turn : Ageing in Late Roth
  • Being Old and Getting Old in Romania : Ageing Frames in Romanian Newspapers
  • Escaping Grannydom : Fashion and Identity in Trinny and Susannah's Makeover Show
  • Notes on contributors