- 272 pages
- English
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About this book
"With this collection of imaginative, wide-ranging essays, Stephen Katz secures his place as his generation's foremost proponent of cultural aging." - W. Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One: Aging, Life Course, and the Cultural Politics of Expertise
- Chapter 1: Imagining the Life Span: From Premodern Miracles to Postmodern Fantasies
- Chapter 2: Charcot’s Older Women: Bodies of Knowledge at the Interface of Aging Studies and Women’s Studies
- Chapter 3: The Government of Detail: The Case of Social Policy on Aging
- Chapter 4: Reflections on the Gerontological Handbook
- Chapter 5: Critical Gerontological Theory: Intellectual Fieldwork and the Nomadic Life of Ideas
- Chapter 6: Creativity Across the Life Course? Titian, Michelangelo, and Older Artist Narratives
- Part Two: Lifestyle and the Fashioning of Senior Worlds
- Chapter 7: Busy Bodies: Activity, Aging, and the Management of Everyday Life
- Chapter 8: Exemplars of Retirement: Identity and Agency Between Lifestyle and Social Movement
- Chapter 9: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body
- Chapter 10: Growing Older Without Aging? Postmodern Time and Senior Markets
- Chapter 11: Spaces of Age, Snowbirds, and the Gerontology of Mobility: The Elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida
- Afterword: Aging Together
- References
- Index