Research Catalog

Title

Alive and kicking at all ages : cultural constructions of health and life course identity / Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck (eds.).

Author

European Association for American Studies. Conference (2012 : İzmir, Turkey)

Publication

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ratzenböck, Barbara
• Maierhofer, Roberta
• Kriebernegg, Ulla
• European Association for American Studies, sponsoring body.

Description

324 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Aging studies ; Volume V

Uniform Title

Aging studies ; v. 5.

Alternative Title

Cultural constructions of health and life course identity

Subject

• Aging > Congresses
• Longevity > Congresses
• Old age > Congresses
• Health behavior > Age factors > Congresses
• Older people > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of the 2012 biennial conference of the European Association of American Studies held at Izmir, Turkey.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Re-thinking material realities and cultural representations of age and aging Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck -- Material realities -- Ageility studies the interplay of criticial approaches in age studies and disability studies Leni Marshall -- I may be old and sick, but I am still a person Beverly Lunsford -- Health and everyday bodily experiences of old Mexican women Meiko Makita -- Kwik-fit versus various speeds of aging Elena Bendien -- preemtive biographies life and the life course in the age of security administration Rüdiger Kunow -- Internalization or social comparison? an empirical investigation of the influence of media (re)presentations of age on the subjective health perception and age experience of older people Julian Wangler -- Combating age discrimination in the workplace a study of the United States' rights-based response Elisabeth Boulot -- Cultural representations -- "There's a reason we're here" performative autobiographies and age identity in performer-created intergenerational theatre Sally Chivers, David Barnet, Jacquie Eales, and Janet Fast -- Images of living and ageing counter-cultural constructions of health and wisdom Ricca Edmondson and Eileen Fairhurst -- She's been away ageing, madness and memory Sherryl Wilson Illness and love in old age Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge Meike Dackweiler -- Uncanny Witnessing dementia, narrative, and identity in fiction by Munro and Franzen Amelia DeFalco -- Shaking off shackles LTC Havens in The bear came over the mountain and The other sister Patricia Life -- "Old women that will not be kept away" undermining ageist discourse with invisibility and performance Ellen Matlok-Ziemann -- Scrutinizing the "medical glance" bodily decay, disease and death in Margaret Atwood's The edible woman Marta Cerezo Moreno -- Wisdom versus frailty in Ursula K. Guin's Voices and Doris Lessing's The reason for it Marciel Oró-Piqueras -- From cane to chair old age and storytelling in juvenile literature by Hawthorne, Goodrich, and Mogridge Eriko Ogihara-Schuck.

ISBN

• 9783837625820 (pbk.)
• 3837625826 (pbk.)
• 9783839425824 (online) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 874531532
• SCSB-11036605

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library