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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 Pub., c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/text | Use in library | BF724.55.A35 C78 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 253 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-241) and index.
- 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 -- Gender, class, and ethnicity -- Ageism -- Prescribed busyness and its antidotes -- A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging -- Conclusion: the paradoxes of aging.
- ISBN
- 9780742565937 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0742565939 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780742565944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0742565947 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780742565951 (electronic)
- 0742565955 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2008031588
- OCLC
- ocn236143177
- SCSB-1506591
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library