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Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging / Margaret Cruikshank.

Title
Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging / Margaret Cruikshank.
Author
Cruikshank, Margaret
Publication
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2013.

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Subject
  • Aging > Psychological aspects
  • Older people > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Cultural myths and aging -- Fear of an aging population -- Sickness and other social roles of old people -- Overmedicating old Americans -- Healthy physical aging -- The politics of healthy aging -- Class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender -- Ageism -- Countercultural gerontology -- A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging -- The paradoxes of aging.
ISBN
  • 9781442213647 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1442213647 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781442213654 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1442213655 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781442213661 (electronic)
  • 1442213663 (electronic)
LCCN
^^2012043505
OCLC
814440880
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library