Learning to be old gender, culture, and aging /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub.,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cultural myths and aging
- Fear of an aging population
- Sickness and other social roles of old people
- Overmedicating old Americans
- Healthy physical aging
- The politics of healthy aging
- Gender, class, and ethnicity
- Ageism
- Prescribed busyness and its antidotes
- A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging
- Conclusion: the paradoxes of aging.