Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life Featherstone Mike
Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life Featherstone Mike We all have a finite life-span. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a…
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Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life Featherstone Mike
We all have a finite life-span. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. We are born, we get old and we die.
The contributors discuss images of ageing which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life changes this. They address themes such as: body and self image in everyday interaction; experience and identity on old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly; images of ageing used by Government agencies in health education campaigns; the diversity of historical representations of the elderly; gender images of ageing; images of senility and second childhood; images of health, illness and
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