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Foreign countries of old age : east and southeast European perspectives on aging /
The exploration of what May Sarton calls the "foreign country of old age" usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies has thus far clearly rested upon North America and Western Europe. This multi-disciplinary essay collection critically examines conditions and r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript Verlag,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Aging studies ;
v. 19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Historical Perspectives
- Old Age in the Balkans
- Co-Residence of Elderly Persons with Children and Grandchildren in Eastern and Southeast Europe
- "University Elders," "Young Professors" and Students
- Changes in Soviet Academia's Age-Related Personnel Policies during the Cold War
- Qualitative and Quantitative Inquiries
- No Country for Old People
- Meanings of Getting Old in Post-Transition Serbia
- On Nearness and Distance
- The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Family Communication
- The Elderly in Russia
- Literary Representations
- Aging in Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Literature
- Ageless, Vital, Immortal
- Noticing Signs and Stereotypes of Aging
- Does Genre Matter?
- Traumatic Aging in Borisav Stanković and Miloš Crnjanski
- The Dark Past of Family
- The Hag and the Egg
- Commemorating Russia's Great Old Women
- Contributors