No Country for Old Age
eBook - ePub

No Country for Old Age

America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

No Country for Old Age

America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley

About this book

Since the birth of their nation, Americans have acted on the belief that theirs was a land of youth, a place destined to offer a fresh start to an aging world. No Country for Old Age tells this story from the founding period to our present moment, but not without exposing its darker side: rejuvenation has often bred grand expectations that end in division and despair.

Mischa Honeck reveals how Americans of diverse backgrounds have sought not only to feel and look younger but also to breathe new life into their communities. Whether marching under the banners of science, public health, sexual liberation, physical fitness, nation-building, or world peace, these youth seekers have tended to paint their ventures in utopian colors. However, from the founders to today’s Silicon Valley elites, anti-aging ventures have repeatedly magnified social inequalities, often projecting visions of society that have been unmistakably classist, racist, misogynist, and ageist. Today we are experiencing rejuvenation’s Janus-faced legacy: As transhumanists rhapsodize about cyber-enhancing human bodies, ghastly pandemics, old-age poverty, and shrinking life expectancies are poised to become the new normal for many twenty-first-century Americans.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Prologue: To Begin the World Over Again
  10. Chapter One. Phoenix Rising: New Lives in the New Nation
  11. Chapter Two. Young America: From Water Cures to the Wide Awakes
  12. Chapter Three. Far Away, Back in Time: The Rise of Imperial Recreation
  13. Chapter Four. Beauty from Trees: The Colonial Roots of American Cosmetics
  14. Chapter Five. Renewing the Race: Sex, Demography, and Democracy between the Wars
  15. Chapter Six. Boy Nations: Rejuvenating Defeated Germany and Japan
  16. Chapter Seven. Wipe the Slate Clean: The Countercultural Rebellion
  17. Chapter Eight. Exercising for the New Age: Building Neoliberal Bodies
  18. Chapter Nine. Transhuman: Rejuvenation’s Final Frontier
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index