Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Herausgeber: Twigg, Julia; Martin, Wendy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Old age is changing, and so are the ways we study it. This exciting new publication brings new aspects of later life into view, such as consumption, embodiment, identity; and draws in new methodologies - visual, literary, spatial. Based on specially commissioned chapters by leading international authors, the Handbook of cultural gerontology will provide concise authoritative reviews of the key debates and themes shaping this exciting new field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1030g
• ISBN-13: 9780415631143
• ISBN-10: 0415631149
• Artikelnr.: 41755137

Autorenporträt

Julia Twigg is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. She has written widely on the body and age. In 2006 she published The Body in Health and Social Care, building on earlier work on personal care, Bathing - the Body and Community Care, and informal carers. She is currently working on dress and age. She has been involved in the recent international conferences of Cultural Gerontology. She is on the editorial boards of Ageing & Society, Journal of Aging Studies and International Journal of Ageing and Later Life. Wendy Martin is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, UK. Her research focuses on ageing, embodiment and daily life and the use of visual methods in ageing research. She was Principal Investigator for the Economic and Social Research Council research project Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space. She is co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Ageing, Body and Society study group. She was previously Secretary of the British Society of Gerontology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Field of Cultural Gerontology: An Introduction
Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin Part I: Theory and Methods 2. Introduction
Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin 3. Aged by Culture
Margaret Morganroth Gullette 4. The Cultural Turn in Gerontology
Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs 5. Beyond the View of the West: Ageing and anthropology
Sarah Lamb 6. Historians of Ageing and the "Cultural Turn
" Antje Kampf 7. Literature and Ageing
Sarah Falcus 8. Theatre and Ageing
Miriam Bernard and Lucy Munro 9. Ageing in Film
Aagje Swinnen 10. Popular Music and Ageing
Ros Jennings 11. Art
Ageing and the Body
Michelle Meagher 12. Visual Methods in Ageing Research
Wendy Martin 13. Ethnographies of Ageing
Cathrine Degnen 14. Ageing
Narrative and Biographical Methods
Joanna Bornat Part II: Embodiment 15. Introduction
Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin 16. Theorising Embodiment and Ageing
Emmanuelle Tulle 17. Gender
Age and Appearance
Laura Hurd Clarke and Erica V. Bennett 18. Hair and Age
Richard Ward 19. Dress and Age
Julia Twigg 20. Science
Technology and Ageing
Kelly Joyce
Meika Loe and Lauren Diamond-Brown 21. Ageing
Risk and the Falling Body
Stephen Katz 22. Dementia and Embodiment
Pia Kontos 23. Suffering and Pain in Old Age
Kate de Medeiros and Helen Black Part III: Identities and Social Relationships 24. Introduction
Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin 25. Intersectionality and Age
Toni Calasanti and Neal King 26. Gender: Implications of a Contested Area
Jeff Hearn and Sharon Wray 27. Anti-ageing and Identities
Barbara L. Marshall 28. Sex
Sexuality and Later Life
Linn Sandberg 29. Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual and Transgender Ageing
Yiu-tung Suen 30. Grandparenting
Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen 31. Widowhood and its Cultural Representation
Anne Martin-Matthews 32. Loneliness and Social Isolation
Christina Victor and Mary Pat Sullivan 33. The Fourth Age
Liz Lloyd 34. Cultures of Care
Michael Fine 35. Ethnicity
Culture and Migration
Sandra Torres 36. Ageing Well Across Cultures
Matthew Carroll and Helen Bartlett Part VI: Consumption and Leisure 37. Introduction
Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin 38. Retirement: Evolution
Revolution
Retrenchment
Sarah Vickerstaff 39. Money and Later Life
Debora Price and Lynne Livsey 40. Possessions as a Material Convoy
David J. Ekerdt 41. Gardens and Gardening in Later Life
Christine Milligan and Amanda Bingley 42. Sport
Physical Activity and Ageing
Cassandra Phoenix and Meredith Griffin 43. Travel and Tourism in Later Life
Martin Hyde 44. Volunteering in Later Life
Jeni Warburton 45. Youth Culture
Ageing and Identity
Andy Bennett 46. Celebrity Culture and Ageing
Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs 47. Representations of Ageing in the Media
Virpi Ylänne 48. 'Late Style' and Late-life Creativity
David Amigoni and Gordon McMullan Part V: Time and Space 49. Introduction
Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin 50. Global and Local Ties and the Reconstruction of Later Life
Chris Phillipson 51. Time in Late Modern Ageing
Jan Baars 52. Transitions
Time and Later Life
Amanda Grenier 53. Rural and Urban Ageing
Ricca Edmondson and Thomas Scharf 54. Lifestyle Migration
Karen O'Reilly and Michaela Benson 55. Ageing Trends in Asia-Pacific Region
Alfred C. M Chan and Carol H. K. Ma 56. Connectivity
Digital Technologies and Later Life
Ian Rees Jones 57. Meanings of Home and Age
Sheila Peace 58. Public Places and Age
Caroline Holland 59. Cemeteries and Age
Allison Kirkman