Extraordinary forms of aging : life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria /

While aging and the life-course appear to be normalized processes, the complex construction of age at the intersection of biology, society, and culture remains opaque. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Velten, Julia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript, [2022]
Colección:Aging studies ; v. 23.
Temas:
Aging.
Centenarians.
Progeria.
Progeria > Patients.
Aging
Centenarians
Progeria
Aging Studies.
American Studies.
Body.
Cultural Studies.
Illness Narratives.
Life Writing.
Literature.
Medicine.
Vieillissement.
Centenaires.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I. Aging Studies amid the Cultural, Social, and Biological
  • 1 Theories of Age(ing)
  • 1.1 The Beginnings of Social Gerontology: The Biological and the Social
  • 1.2 Social and Cultural Impacts on the Aging Process
  • 1.3 The Subcategories of Age
  • 1.4 Extraordinary Forms of Aging
  • 1.5 Extraordinary Age(ing) and Life Writing
  • II. Centenarians-The Stars of Aging
  • 2 "I feel glorious": The 100th Birthday of Macklemore's Grandmother
  • 2.1 New Beginnings: Rereading "Glorious" in Terms of Aging Studies
  • 2.2 "I wanna do it all": Extraordinary 'Old' Age and Extraordinary 'Young' Behavior
  • 2.3 Centenarianism and the Aging Body in the Realms of a Hip-Hop Video
  • 2.4 "Glorious" and the Portrayal of Extraordinary 'Old' Age
  • 3 The Normality of Being a Centenarian: A Day in the Life of Aldéa Pellerin-Cormier
  • 3.1 Music, Setting, Camera: How the Documentary 'Makes' the Centenarian
  • 3.2 Passing on Knowledge: The Centenarian's Wisdom
  • 3.3 Femininity, Sex, and Gender in Extraordinary 'Old' Age
  • 3.4 Aging, Place, and Questions of Ability: (In)Dependence in Extraordinary 'Old' Age
  • 3.5 Aldéa Pellerin-Cormier and the Normality of Centenarianism
  • 4 Extraordinary 'Old' Age and (Auto)Biography: George Dawson's Life is So Good! at the Intersection of Age(ing), Race, and Class
  • 4.1 Co-Authorship, Vulnerability, and the Art of Age (Auto)biographies
  • 4.2 Aging through the Life-Course: The Interconnectedness of Race, Class, and Age
  • 4.3 Framing Extraordinary 'Old' Age: The Fabrication of George Dawson
  • 4.4 African American Aging Through the Life-Course and the Fabrication of Centenarianism in Life is So Good!
  • 5 Representations of Extraordinary 'Old' Age: Same, Same, but Different?
  • III. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome-Questioning Assumptions of Age(ing)
  • 6 Sensationalizing Disease: "Living with Progeria: Born Different"
  • 6.1 Adalia Rose: Progeria between Fragility and Empowerment
  • 6.2 The Siblings with Progeria: Michiel and Amber Vandeweert
  • 6.3 "Living with Progeria": Illness as Phenomenon
  • 7 Sam Berns: Progeria Between Clinical Trials and Lived Experience
  • 7.1 Extraordinary Age in Life According to Sam
  • 7.2 Progeria and Clinical Trials
  • 7.3 A Philosophy for a Happy Life: Sam Berns' TED Talk
  • 7.4 Sam Berns as Commodity: Agency and Perspective in Life According to Sam
  • 7.5 Framing Extraordinary Age(ing) in Life According to Sam
  • 8 Framing Progeria in an (Auto)Biography: Hayley Okines' Old Before My Time
  • 8.1 Old Before My Time and Narrative Structure
  • 8.2 Intertextual References and Conflicting Narratives: Clinical Trials and Connections to Other Children with Progeria
  • 8.3 In Search for the Illness: Hayley's Diagnosis
  • 8.4 Hayley Okines and the Construction of Extraordinary Age(ing)

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