Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
ISBN-10
0742565939
ISBN-13
9780742565937
Series
Learning to be Old
Category
Psychology
Pages
253
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Margaret Cruikshank

Description

In the second edition of Learning to Be Old, Margaret Cruikshank examines the social construction of aging, especially women's aging, from a number of different angles: medical, economic, cultural, and political. Featuring new research and analysis, expanded sections on gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender aging and critical gerontology, and an updated chapter on feminist gerontology, the second edition even more thoroughly than the first looks at the variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.

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