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Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Publication date
December 28, 2008
Pages
253
Binding
Paperback
Edition
2
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780742565944
ISBN-10
0742565947
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$29.95
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Health Promotion and Aging | Sacred Waiting | Facing Age | Women in Late Life | Social Work With Older Adults | Age Matters | The Book of Creation | The Cry of the Deer | The Oxford Book of Aging
Health Promotion and Aging | Sacred Waiting | Facing Age | Women in Late Life | Social Work With Older Adults | Age Matters | The Book of Creation | The Cry of the Deer | The Oxford Book of Aging
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A third edition of this textbook is now available.
What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is "successful aging" our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to "grow old gracefully"? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual orientation have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena, yet aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses. The second edition of Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Featuring new research and analysis, expanded sections on gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender aging and critical gerontology, and an updated chapter on feminist gerontology, the second edition even more thoroughly than the first looks at the variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging. Cruikshank pays special attention to the fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes that inform our understanding of age. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.
What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is "successful aging" our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to "grow old gracefully"? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual orientation have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena, yet aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses. The second edition of Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Featuring new research and analysis, expanded sections on gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender aging and critical gerontology, and an updated chapter on feminist gerontology, the second edition even more thoroughly than the first looks at the variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging. Cruikshank pays special attention to the fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes that inform our understanding of age. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.
Editions
Hardcover
3 edition from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (February 14, 2013)
9781442213647 | details & prices | 281 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $99.00
2 edition from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (December 15, 2008)
9780742565937 | details & prices | 253 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.18 lbs | List price $75.00
About: What does it mean to grow old in America today?
About: What does it mean to grow old in America today?
from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (October 1, 2002)
9780847698486 | details & prices | 244 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $83.00
About: What does it mean to grow old in America today?
About: What does it mean to grow old in America today?
Paperback
3 edition from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (February 14, 2013)
9781442213654 | details & prices | 281 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.88 lbs | List price $33.00
The price comparison is for this edition
2 edition from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (December 28, 2008)
9780742565944 | details & prices | 253 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $29.95
About: A third edition of this textbook is now available.
About: A third edition of this textbook is now available.
from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (November 1, 2002)
9780847698493 | details & prices | 244 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $29.95
Miscellaneous
from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (January 16, 2009)
9780742565951 | details & prices | 266 pages | List price $75.00
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