Aging Bodies: Images and Everyday Experience - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 075910235X ISBN 13: 9780759102354

Verlag: AltaMira Press,U.S., 2003

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This volume is a welcome contribution to the understanding of the aging and the aged body in the field of social gerontology. In contrast to overly abstract and, ironically, disembodied treatments of the body current in the academy today, essays in this collection ground theory and interpretation in original and intriguing empirical research. The result is a lively collection addressing cultural representations, lived experience, and social practices of those inhabiting an older body. -- Frida Kerner Furman, DePaul University

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Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism; the first examines the physical body and the second focuses upon psychological and social aspects of aging. Christopher A. Faircloth's edited volume of original pieces attempts to bridge this rift: reinserting the physical back into gerontology's study of aging. Faircloth organizes this text around everyday experience and the social and personal impact of its imagery, while concentrating on three areas of substantive concern: medicalization, gender/sexuality, and the body as consumer.

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• Verlag: AltaMira Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 075910235X
• ISBN 13: 9780759102354
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225
• Herausgeber: Faircloth Christopher A.