Stephen Katz

Cultural Aging

Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"With this collection of imaginative, wide-ranging essays, Stephen Katz secures his place as his generation's foremost proponent of cultural aging." - W. Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9781551115771
• ISBN-10: 1551115778
• Artikelnr.: 26191871

Autorenporträt

Stephen Katz is a Professor of Sociology at Trent Unversity 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Aging, Life Course, and The Cultural Politics of Expertise
Chapter 1: Imagining the Life Span: From Premodern Miracles to Postmodern
Fantasies
Chapter 2: Charcot's Older Women: Bodies of Knowledge at the Interface of
Aging Studies and Women's Studies
Chapter 3: The Government of Detail: The Case of Social Policy on Aging,
Stephen Katz and Bryan Green
Chapter 4: Reflections on the Gerontological Handbook
Chapter 5: Critical Gerontological Theory: Intellectual Fieldwork and the
Nomadic Life of Ideas
Chapter 6: Creativity Across the Life Course? Titian, Michelangelo, and
Older Artist Narratives, Stephen Katz and Erin Campbell
Part Two: Lifestyle and the Fashioning of Senior Worlds
Chapter 7: Busy Bodies: Activity, Aging, and the Management of Everyday
Life
Chapter 8: Exemplars of Retirement: Identity and Agency Between Lifestyle
and Social Movement, Stephen Katz and Debbie Laliberte-Rudman
Chapter 9: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body,
Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz
Chapter 10: Growing Older Without Aging? Postmodern Time and Senior Markets
Chapter 11: Spaces of Age, Snowbirds, and the Gerontology of Mobility: The
Elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida
Afterword: Aging Together
References
Index