Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersecting Injustice

ISBN-13: 9781433195310 / 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

Silvia Perel-Levin, a highly respected international expert and leading advocate on human rights and ageing, has brought together contributors from around the world and from different disciplines to reflect on ageing, human rights, and oppression in its many forms. The book offers provocative, moving, and powerful stories and analyses of marginalisation in older age and the interaction of age and other forms of discrimination in the denial of human rights. The book demands of its readers that they reflect deeply on their own ageism, prejudices, and complacency. A must-have for anyone interested in ageing, human rights, law, and structures of power in our societies. -Andrew Byrnes, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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.