Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersecting Injustice

ISBN-13: 9781433195303 / Angielski

Shirley R. Steinberg; Silvia Perel-Levin

Opis

Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other "isms."

Recenzje

As an eminent global advocate for the improvement of human rights of all citizens and most especially older people, Silvia Perel-Levin is well qualified to bring together leading experts in their field to convey through storytelling the manifest urgency for formal recognition and collective action against unjust treatment in all its forms. Each narrative will leave an imprint on your soul of the pain of being human yet most importantly the innate power in voice and meaningful engagement. -Jane Barratt, Secretary General, International Federation on Ageing

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Silvia Perel-Levin: Introduction: Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersecting Injustice - Alexandre Kalache: Growing Old Among Inequalities in Brazil - Bette Ann Moskowitz: The Cultural Cage - Adolf Ratzka: Living and Aging with Disability: A Personal Account - Michael Adams: LGBTI Elders Advancing - María Soledad Cisternas Reyes: The Intersection Between Old Age and Disability - Kate Swaffer: About Us Without All of Us: The Elephants in the Room - Liat Ayalon: Mental Health, Physical Health, Older Age, and Oppression - Claudia Mahler: Human Rights of Older Persons: Wishful Thinking or Reality? - Larraine J. Larri: "Viva La Nannalution!" Overcoming Ageist Sexism in Environmental Activism: The Australian Older Women's Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed - Alanna Armitage: The Silver Tsunami, the Ticking Time Bomb and Other Demographic Imaginaries: Moving from Demographic Threat to Demographic Resilience - About the Authors.

O autorze

Silvia Perel-Levin is an advocate for the human rights of older persons at international organizations, and as an independent consultant. She has a B.A. in Social Theater from Tel Aviv University and an M.Sc. in Inter-Professional Practice, Society, and Violence from City University London.