Age becomes us : bodies and gender in time /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marshall, Leni, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
Colección:SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Temas:
Aging > Social aspects.
Older women.
Older people.
Human body > Social aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
Vieillissement > Aspect social.
Femmes âgées.
Personnes âgées.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Identité (Psychologie)
elderly.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Aging > Social aspects
Human body > Social aspects
Older people
Older women
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 : Constructing the Body of Age Studies; Analytical Use; Barriers and Words; Analysis, Advocacy, and Activism; Inquiry; A Roadmap; Chapter 2 : Deconstructing the Body Through Age Studies:; Constructing Age; Degendering Age; Abjection; Potential; Chapter 3 : Ambiguous Loss, Ambiguous Gain: Age Studies Analyses in Menopause and Beyond; Menopause; Menopause Mythology; Menopause: Questionable Wisdom; Learning to Be Old: Help Wanted; Learning to Be Old: Help Found; Ambiguous Loss.
  • Chapter 4 : Changing Bodies and Changing Minds with Doris Lessing's The Diaries of Jane SomersText; Otherdaughter: Taking Care; Giving Care; Material Progress and New Ideas; Context; Materialism and Feminism; Didacticism; And, And, And
  • Chapter 5 : Lucille Clifton's Poetic Perspective and Aging; Exemplar: Clifton; Historical Context; Contemporary Context; Poetic Context; Counterpoint and Future Context; Chapter 6 : Storytelling and Cultural Transmission, with Louise Erdrich's Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse; The Story's Story: Old Woman Spider (Cherokee).
  • Generational Functionality in Traditional Girst Nation CulturesStories' Historical Functions in First Nation Cultures; Storytellers' function in contemporary first nation cultures; Group Individuals: Story as Context; The Story of Last Report; Othereldering; A Possibility: Regardless of Time
  • Chapter 7 : Rewriting Death, Rewriting Life; Re-membering the Field; Rewriting Death, Rewriting Life; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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