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This ground-breaking study of the baby boomer generation reflects the intersection of time, ageing, body and identity to give a nuanced and enlightened understanding of the ageing process.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woodspring, Naomi (auithor.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, [2016]
Temas:
Aging > Psychological aspects.
Aging > Social aspects.
Baby boom generation.
Vieillissement > Aspect psychologique.
Vieillissement > Aspect social.
Génération du baby-boom.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
Aging > Psychological aspects
Aging > Social aspects
Baby boom generation
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • BABY BOOMERS
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: the curiosity of ageing body, time, and identity
  • A study of time, body, identity, and ageing
  • Ageing bodies in time
  • Whose old?
  • The chapters
  • Systems thinking
  • The participants
  • Presentism: the worst of times
  • 2. Kaleidoscopic Sixties
  • 'My' Sixties
  • Creating the memory
  • The times
  • Making the revolution happen
  • Liberation movements
  • The Pill
  • two generations of women
  • Music
  • The naysayers
  • Conclusion
  • 3. The appearance of time
  • Barbara Adam
  • Chuk Moran and social time
  • History as time
  • Naming time
  • Culture and time
  • Generation: divided memories and mnemonic community
  • Ageing time
  • Conclusion
  • 4. On time
  • Time is ...
  • Time, ageing, and non-linearity
  • Time's structure
  • Beginning
  • Life's reckonings
  • Patterns
  • Movement, flow, and continuum
  • Memory, shared history, and relationship
  • Futurity
  • Time and process
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Body and identity
  • Body: an introduction
  • Merleau-Ponty
  • Foucault
  • Foucault's influence and legacy
  • Elias
  • Julia Twigg: opening the door to ageing bodies
  • Understanding history
  • Identity: an introduction
  • Who am I?
  • Multi-storied identities
  • Identities and embodiment
  • Extending the boundaries
  • Weaving memories and meaning
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The past and present converge
  • The past
  • The present
  • Conclusion
  • 7. The future
  • Imagining the future
  • Deep time: imagining, wondering, expecting the future
  • Longevity and difference
  • Connections
  • Looking forward
  • Facing finitude
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Chiasm, the intersection of time, embodiment, and identity
  • Nexus
  • Chronology and contextual time
  • Time and body
  • history and generation
  • Embodied ageing identities
  • Care of body
  • ownership and control
  • Deep body habitation.
  • Deep time and dynamic legacy
  • Universality and difference
  • Chiasm revisited
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Time will tell
  • The prismatic lens
  • Bone deep
  • Becoming
  • Music and public ageing
  • Future memories
  • Enmeshment
  • Appendix A. On the research
  • Key to research participants
  • On the research
  • Appendix B. Interview questions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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