Ellyn Lem

Gray Matters

Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines films, literature, and art that focus on aging, often made by people who are over sixty-five. These texts are analyzed alongside recent gerontology research and extensive commentary from interviews and surveys of seniors to show how "stories" illuminate the dynamics of growing old by blending fact with imagination, giving a fuller picture of the aging process.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781978806313
• ISBN-10: 1978806310
• Artikelnr.: 58038139

Autorenporträt

ELLYN LEM is a professor of English and gender studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha. 

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Margaret Cruikshank
1. Introduction: "Where Do I Begin?"
2. Senior Parents and Their Adult Children: "Can't We All Just Get
Along?"
3. Surveying the Housing Options: "No Place like Home"?
4. Understanding Memory Loss: "Am I Losing my Mind?"
5. Intimacy: "Love is All You Need"?
6. Women and Men: "Separate But Equal"?
7. Money, Work and Retirement: "Are We There Yet?"
8. Death: "The Final Frontier"?
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index