Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity

Published by transcript Verlag 2014

Alive and Kicking at All Ages

Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity

Edited by: Ulla Kriebernegg , Roberta Maierhofer and Barbara Ratzenböck

Volume 5 in the series Aging Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839425824

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About this book

The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role the notion of health plays in such an interaction.

Author / Editor information

Ulla Kriebernegg is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) and an associate professor of American Studies at Universität Graz in Austria. In her research and teaching she focuses on North American literary and cultural studies, aging and care studies, and health humanities. She has taught internationally and has won several teaching and research awards.
Roberta Maierhofer is a professor of American studies and Director of the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria. Her research focuses on (Inter)American literature and culture, gender and age/aging.
Barbara Ratzenböck is a sociologist and senior scientist at the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria. Her research and teaching focus on digitalization, gender, and generations, as well as Inter-American studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Re-Thinking Material Realities and Cultural Representations of Age and Aging Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer and Barbara Ratzenböck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Material Realities
Ageility Studies The Interplay of Critical Approaches in Age Studies and Disability Studies Leni Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
I May be Old and Sick, But I Am Still a Person Beverly Lunsford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Health and Everyday Bodily Experiences of Old Mexican Women Meiko Makita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Kwik-Fit versus Varying Speeds of Aging Elena Bendien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Preemptive Biographies Life and the Life Course in the Age of Security Administration Rüdiger Kunow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Internalization or Social Comparison? An Empirical Investigation of the Influence of Media (Re)Presentations of Age on the Subjective Health Perception and Age Experience of Older People Julian Wangler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Combating Age Discrimination in the Workplace A Study of the United States’ Rights-Based Response Elisabeth Boulot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Cultural Representations
“There’s a reason we’re here” Performative Autobiographics and Age Identity in Per former- Created Intergenerational Theatre Sally Chivers, David Barnet, Jacquie Eales and Janet Fast Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Images of Living and Ageing Counter-Cultural Constructions of Health and Wisdom Ricca Edmondson and Eileen Fairhurst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
She’s Been Away Ageing, Madness and Memory Sherryl Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Illness and Love in Old Age Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge Meike Dackweiler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Uncanny Witnessing Dementia, Narrative, and Identity in Fiction by Munro and Franzen Amelia DeFalco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Shaking off Shackles LTC Havens in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” and The Other Sister Patricia Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
“Old women that will not be kept away” Undermining Ageist Discourse with Invisibility and Per formance Ellen Matlok-Ziemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Scrutinizing the “Medical Glance” Bodily Decay, Disease and Death in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman Marta Cerezo Moreno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Wisdom versus Frailty in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Voices and Doris Lessing’s “The Reason for It” Maricel Oró-Piqueras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
From Cane to Chair Old Age and Storytelling in Juvenile Literature by Hawthorne, Goodrich, and Mogridge Eriko Ogihara-Schuck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 324
Keywords: Disability; Health; Identity; Gender; Narratives of Decline; Memory; Madness; Medicine; Sociology of Medicine; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839425824