Mirror mirror on the wall : reflections on ageing / Barbara Kamler and Susan Feldman -- The cultural history of old age / Pat Thane -- 'Our youth is spent and our backs are bent' : the origins of Australian ageism / Graeme Davison -- Declining life : on the rocks in early Sydney / Grace Karskens -- 'Terminal old age' : ageing and suicide in Victoria, 1841-1921 / Simon Cooke -- Generational conflict and the question of ageing in nineteenth and twentieth century feminism / Barbara Caine -- Disciplinary texts : rhetoric and the science of old age in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Stephen Katz -- Neverland and the plight of grownups today / Kevin D. Murray -- Ageless light : a tubercular history / Paul Carter