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Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging
- Title
- Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging / Margaret Cruikshank.
- Author
- Cruikshank, Margaret
- Publication
- Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2003.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/text | Use in library | JFE 02-21753 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 244 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-232) and index.
- Contents
- Cultural myths and aging -- The fear of an aging population -- Sickness and other social roles of the old -- Overmedicating old Americans -- Healthy physical aging -- The politics of healthy aging -- Gender, class, and ethnicity -- Prescribed busyness and spirituality -- Ageism -- Gerastology : a feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging -- Conclusion: The paradoxes of aging.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-21753
- ISBN
- 0847698483 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0847698491 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002005352
- OCLC
- vendor
- Author
- Cruikshank, Margaret.
- Title
- Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging / Margaret Cruikshank.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-232) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-21753