Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs

Cultures of Ageing

Self, Citizen and the Body

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cultures of Ageing aims to redress this imbalance. Starting from a radically different perspective, the authors identify the changing nature of ageing as both central to, and problematical for, modern life. The rise and subsequent crises of welfare state systems have invested old age with a key role in redefining the position of citizens and the role of governments. Ageing has ceased to have any stable meaning in relation to biology, policy or experience. Instead it has become an open phenomenon of flux rather than of closure. This new book focuses upon these changes and examines in particular the significance of lifestyle cultures associated with the third age. Each chapter of this book examines a different aspect of ageing and relates it to the core themes of self and identity, citizenship, and the body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780582356412
• ISBN-10: 0582356415
• Artikelnr.: 24270603

Autorenporträt

Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. From Political Economy to the culture of personal identity
3. Retirement, identity and consumer society
4. Identity, self-care and staying young
5. The old person as citizen
6. Senior citizenship and contemporary social policy
7. Ageing and its embodiment
8. Bio-ageing and the reproduction of the social
9. Ageing, Alzheimer's and the uncivilised body
10 The inevitablity of the cultural turn in ageing studies