| Description |
xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Mike Featherstone and Andrew Wernick -- 2. Images of Old Age in America, 1790-1970: A Vision and a Re-Vision / Andrew Achenbaum -- 3. Images of Positive Aging: A Case Study of Retirement Choice Magazine / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth -- 4. The Status and Image of the Elderly in Japan: Understanding the Paternalistic Ideology / Shuichi Wada -- 5. Imagining the Life-Span: From Premodern Miracles to Postmodern Fantasies / Steven Katz -- 6. Tribute to the Older Woman: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Ageism / Kathleen Woodward -- 7. Imaging the Aging of Men / Jeff Hearn -- 8. Changing Images of Aging and the Social Construction of the Life Course / Tamara K. Hareven -- 9. Back to Our Futures: Imaging Second Childhood / Jenny Hockey and Allison James -- 10. Children's Drawings of Grandparents: A Quantitative Analysis of Images / Cornelia Hummel, Jean-Charles Rey and Christian J. Lalive d'Epinay |
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11. From Gloom to Boom: Age, Identity and Target Marketing / Kimberly Anne Sawchuk -- 12. Chan Is Missing: The Death of the Aging Asian Eye / Norman K. Denzin -- 13. Creating Memories: Some Images of Aging in Mass Tourism / David Chaney -- 14. Post-Bodies, Aging and Virtual Reality / Mike Featherstone -- 15. Aging and Identity: Some Reflections on the Somatization of the Self / Bryan S. Turner -- 16. From Grim Reaper to Cheery Condom: Images of Aging and Death in Australian AIDS Education Campaigns / John Tulloch -- 17. Selling Funerals, Imaging Death / Andrew Wernick |
| Summary |
They address themes such as: body and self-image in everyday interaction; experience and identity in old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly; images of aging used by governments in health education campaigns; the diversity of historical representations of the elderly; gender images of aging; images of senility and second childhood; images of health, illness and death |
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It is true to say that aging is about the body, yet in the study of aging we often lose sight of the lived body. Previous works have tended to concentrate on a gruesome cartography of aging infirmities, or on policy developments. The result of this has been to make gerontology and the study of aging data rich and theory poor. It is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. Images of Aging changes this. The editors have drawn together a team of international contributors who discuss the images of aging which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies of today |
| Analysis |
Humans Ageing |
| Notes |
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at Trent University, Peterborough, Ont., in May 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Older people in popular culture -- Congresses.
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Ageism -- Congresses.
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Ageism.
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Older people in popular culture.
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Aged.
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Sociology.
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Aging -- ethnology.
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Culture -- history
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Featherstone, Mike.
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Wernick, Andrew.
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| LC no. |
94049031 |
| ISBN |
0415112583 (hbk.) |
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0415112591 (paperback) |
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