Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

ISBN-13: 9780367866631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 480 str.

Julia Twigg; Wendy Martin

Opis

Old age is changing, and so are the ways we study it. This exciting new publication brings new aspects of later life into view, such as consumption, embodiment, identity; and draws in new methodologies – visual, literary, spatial.　 Based on specially commissioned chapters by leading international authors, the Handbook of cultural gerontology wil

Spis treści

1. The Field of Cultural Gerontology: An Introduction, Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin  Part I: Theory and Methods  2. Introduction, Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin  3. Aged by Culture, Margaret Morganroth Gullette  4. The Cultural Turn in Gerontology, Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs  5. Beyond the View of the West: Ageing and anthropology, Sarah Lamb  6. Historians of Ageing and the "Cultural Turn," Antje Kampf  7. Literature and Ageing, Sarah Falcus  8. Theatre and Ageing, Miriam Bernard and Lucy Munro  9. Ageing in Film, Aagje Swinnen  10. Popular Music and Ageing, Ros Jennings  11. Art, Ageing and the Body, Michelle Meagher  12. Visual Methods in Ageing Research, Wendy Martin  13. Ethnographies of Ageing, Cathrine Degnen  14. Ageing, Narrative and Biographical Methods, Joanna Bornat  Part II: Embodiment  15. Introduction, Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin  16. Theorising Embodiment and Ageing, Emmanuelle Tulle  17. Gender, Age and Appearance, Laura Hurd Clarke and Erica V. Bennett  18. Hair and Age, Richard Ward  19. Dress and Age, Julia Twigg  20. Science, Technology and Ageing, Kelly Joyce, Meika Loe and Lauren Diamond-Brown  21. Ageing, Risk and the Falling Body, Stephen Katz  22. Dementia and Embodiment, Pia Kontos  23. Suffering and Pain in Old Age, Kate de Medeiros and Helen Black  Part III: Identities and Social Relationships  24. Introduction, Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin  25. Intersectionality and Age, Toni Calasanti and Neal King  26. Gender: Implications of a Contested Area, Jeff Hearn and Sharon Wray  27. Anti-ageing and Identities, Barbara L. Marshall  28. Sex, Sexuality and Later Life

O autorze

Julia Twigg is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. She has written widely on the body and age. In 2006 she published The Body in Health and Social Care, building on earlier work on personal care, Bathing - the Body and Community Care, and informal carers. She is currently working on dress and age. She has been involved in the recent international conferences of Cultural Gerontology. She is on the editorial boards of Ageing & Society, Journal of Aging Studies and International Journal of Ageing and Later Life.

Wendy Martin is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, UK. Her research focuses on ageing, embodiment and daily life and the use of visual methods in ageing research. She was Principal Investigator for the Economic and Social Research Council research project Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space. She is co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Ageing, Body and Society study group. She was previously Secretary of the British Society of Gerontology.