Margaret Cruikshank

Fierce with Reality

Literature on Aging

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fierce with Reality presents a diverse range of literature on aging that demonstrates the challenges, complexities and pleasurable aspects of late life. Many facets of aging are explored, revealing the challenges and complexities of late life, and demonstrating that the aging process is both individual and social/cultural.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780761868705
• ISBN-10: 0761868704
• Artikelnr.: 47117042

Autorenporträt

Margaret Cruikshank retired from the women's studies faculty at the University of Maine, where she is currently an associate of the university's Center on Aging. She is the author of Learning to be Old: gender, culture and aging, 3rd ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

The Old Poets of China, Mary Oliver Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1:
A Kaleidoscope of Images Chapter 2: Homage to Grandmothers Chapter 3:
Strength and Wisdom Chapter 4: Aging is Not for Sissies Chapter 5: Growth
and Change Chapter 6: Defiance and Self-Determination Chapter 7: Loss
Chapter 8: Humor Chapter 9: Ageism Chapter 10: The Fountain of Youth: Two
Asian Versions Chapter 11: Reflections About the Editor Suggested Reading