Keywords:
Aging
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Aging Studies amid the Cultural, Social, and Biological -- 1 Theories of Age(ing) -- 1.1 The Beginnings of Social Gerontology: The Biological and the Social -- 1.2 Social and Cultural Impacts on the Aging Process -- 1.3 The Subcategories of Age -- 1.4 Extraordinary Forms of Aging -- 1.5 Extraordinary Age(ing) and Life Writing -- II. Centenarians-The Stars of Aging -- 2 "I feel glorious": The 100th Birthday of Macklemore's Grandmother -- 2.1 New Beginnings: Rereading "Glorious" in Terms of Aging Studies -- 2.2 "I wanna do it all": Extraordinary 'Old' Age and Extraordinary 'Young' Behavior -- 2.3 Centenarianism and the Aging Body in the Realms of a Hip-Hop Video -- 2.4 "Glorious" and the Portrayal of Extraordinary 'Old' Age -- 3 The Normality of Being a Centenarian: A Day in the Life of Aldéa Pellerin-Cormier -- 3.1 Music, Setting, Camera: How the Documentary 'Makes' the Centenarian -- 3.2 Passing on Knowledge: The Centenarian's Wisdom -- 3.3 Femininity, Sex, and Gender in Extraordinary 'Old' Age -- 3.4 Aging, Place, and Questions of Ability: (In)Dependence in Extraordinary 'Old' Age -- 3.5 Aldéa Pellerin-Cormier and the Normality of Centenarianism -- 4 Extraordinary 'Old' Age and (Auto)Biography: George Dawson's Life is So Good! at the Intersection of Age(ing), Race, and Class -- 4.1 Co-Authorship, Vulnerability, and the Art of Age (Auto)biographies -- 4.2 Aging through the Life-Course: The Interconnectedness of Race, Class, and Age -- 4.3 Framing Extraordinary 'Old' Age: The Fabrication of George Dawson -- 4.4 African American Aging Through the Life-Course and the Fabrication of Centenarianism in Life is So Good! -- 5 Representations of Extraordinary 'Old' Age: Same, Same, but Different? -- III. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome-Questioning Assumptions of Age(ing).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (255 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839462775
Series Statement:
Aging Studies
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=7111905
DDC:
612.67
Language:
English
Note:
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