Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
c2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Cultural myths and aging
- The fear of an aging population
- Sickness and other social roles of the old
- Overmedicating old Americans
- Healthy physical aging
- The politics of healthy aging
- Gender, class, and ethnicity
- Prescribed busyness and spirituality
- Ageism
- Gerastology : a feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging
- Conclusion: The paradoxes of aging.