Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415112583 ISBN 13: 9780415112581

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life changes this. The contributors discuss images of ageing which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. They address themes such as: body and self image in everyday interaction; experience and identity on old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly; images of ageing used by Government agencies in health education campaigns; the diversity of historical representations of the elderly; gender images of ageing; images of senility and second childhood; images of health, illness and death.

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About the Author

Mike Featherstone, Andrew Wernick

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415112583
• ISBN 13: 9780415112581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Featherstone Mike, Wernick Andrew