| Description |
267 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Cultural Urgencies -- 1. Trapped in the New Time Machines -- 2. True Secrets of Being Aged by Culture -- 3. "The Xers" versus "the Boomers": A Contrived War -- 4. Perilous Parenting: The Deaths of Children and the Fear of Aging-into-the-Midlife -- 5. The High Costs of Middle-Ageism -- Pt. 2. Theorizing Age Resistantly -- 6. What Is Age Studies? -- 7. Age Identity Revisited -- 8. From Life Storytelling to Age Autobiography -- 9. Acting Age on Stage: Age-Appropriate Casting, the Default Body, and Valuing the Property of Having an Age -- 10. Age Studies as Cultural Studies: Beyond Slice-of-Life |
| Summary |
Americans enjoy longer lives and better health, yet are becoming increasingly obsessed with trying to stay young. In this book, Margaret Morganroth Gullette reveals that aging doesn't start in our chromosomes, but in midlife downsizing, the erosion of workplace seniority, threats to Social Security, or media portrayals of "aging Xers" and "greedy" Baby Boomers. To combat the forces aging us prematurely, Gullette invites us to change our attitudes, our life storytelling, and our society. Part intimate autobiography, part startling cultural expose, this book does for age what gender and race studies have done for their categories. Aged by Culture is an impassioned manifesto against the pernicious ideologies that steal hope from every stage of our lives.[publisher] |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Middle age -- Social aspects.
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Middle age -- Study and teaching.
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Older people -- Social conditions -- Study and teaching.
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Ageism.
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Aging -- Social aspects.
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Autobiography -- Social aspects.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Old age -- Study and teaching.
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| LC no. |
2003012640 |
| ISBN |
0226310612 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226310620 paperback alkaline paper |
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