An edition of Alive and kicking at all ages
(2014)
Alive and kicking at all ages
cultural constructions of health and life course identity
by Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, and Barbara Ratzenböck
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Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity
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Alive and kicking at all ages: cultural constructions of health and life course identity
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Table of Contents
Re-thinking material realities and cultural representations of age and aging -- Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck
Material realities --
Ageility studies the interplay of criticial approaches in age studies and disability studies -- Leni Marshall
I may be old and sick, but I am still a person -- Beverly Lunsford
Health and everyday bodily experiences of old Mexican women -- Meiko Makita
Kwik-fit versus various speeds of aging -- Elena Bendien
preemtive biographies life and the life course in the age of security administration -- Rüdiger Kunow
Internalization or social comparison? an empirical investigation of the influence of media (re)presentations of age on the subjective health perception and age experience of older people -- Julian Wangler
Combating age discrimination in the workplace a study of the United States' rights-based response -- Elisabeth Boulot
Cultural representations --
"There's a reason we're here" performative autobiographies and age identity in performer-created intergenerational theatre -- Sally Chivers, David Barnet, Jacquie Eales, and Janet Fast
Images of living and ageing counter-cultural constructions of health and wisdom -- Ricca Edmondson and Eileen Fairhurst
She's been away ageing, madness and memory -- Sherryl Wilson
Illness and love in old age Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge -- Meike Dackweiler
Uncanny Witnessing dementia, narrative, and identity in fiction by Munro and Franzen -- Amelia DeFalco
Shaking off shackles LTC Havens in The bear came over the mountain and The other sister -- Patricia Life
"Old women that will not be kept away" undermining ageist discourse with invisibility and performance -- Ellen Matlok-Ziemann
Scrutinizing the "medical glance" bodily decay, disease and death in Margaret Atwood's The edible woman -- Marta Cerezo Moreno
Wisdom versus frailty in Ursula K. Guin's Voices and Doris Lessing's The reason for it -- Marciel Oró-Piqueras
From cane to chair old age and storytelling in juvenile literature by Hawthorne, Goodrich, and Mogridge-- Eriko Ogihara-Schuck.
Edition Notes
International conference proceedings, 2012, Izmir, Turkey.
"This volume came out of the biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) in Izmir/Turkey in the spring of 2012." page 10
Includes bibliographical references.
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