Focusing on health and social care, this book shows how important the body can be to a range of issues such as disability, old age, sexuality, consumption, food and public space. Twigg illustrates how constructions of the body affect how we see different social groups and explores the significance of it in the provision and delivery of care.
Focusing on health and social care, this book shows how important the body can be to a range of issues such as disability, old age, sexuality, consump...
The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work.
Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care
Contributions come from an international range of experts
Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields
Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and...
The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those e...
Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate - for people as they age. Older women in particular have long been subject to social pressure to tone down, to adopt self-effacing, covered-up styles. But increasingly there are signs of change, as older women aspire to younger, more mainstream, styles, and retailers realize the potential of the 'grey market'.
Fashion and Age is the first study to systematically explore the links between clothing and age, drawing on fashion theory and cultural gerontology...
Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate - for people as they age. ...
