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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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Book/textUse in library BF724.55.A35 C78 2009Off-site

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Description
xi, 253 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Aging > Psychological aspects
  • Older people > United States
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