Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
Autor Margaret Cruikshanken Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 feb 2013
Featuring new research and analysis, the third edition of Learning to be Old demonstrates, more thoroughly than the previous editions, that aging is socially constructed. Among texts on aging the book is unique in its clear focus on the differences in aging for women and men, as well as for people in different socioeconomic groups. Cruikshank is able to put aging in a broad context that not only focuses on how aging affects women but men, as well. Key updates in the third edition include changes in the health care system, changes in how long older Americans are working especially given the impact of the recession, and new material on the brain and mind-body interconnections. Cruikshank impressively challenges conventional ideas about aging in this third edition of Learning to be Old. This will be a must-read for everyone interested in new ideas surrounding aging in America today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781442213654
ISBN-10: 1442213655
Pagini: 281
Dimensiuni: 154 x 231 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:3 Rev ed.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1442213655
Pagini: 281
Dimensiuni: 154 x 231 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:3 Rev ed.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1: Cultural Myths and Aging
2: Fear of an Aging Population
3: Sickness and Other Social Roles of Old People
4: Overmedicating Old Americans
5: Healthy Physical Aging
6: The Politics of Healthy Aging
7: Gender, Class, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation
8: Ageism
9: Countercultural Gerontology
10: A Feminist's View of Gerontology and Women's Aging
Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Aging
References
About the Author
Preface
Introduction
1: Cultural Myths and Aging
2: Fear of an Aging Population
3: Sickness and Other Social Roles of Old People
4: Overmedicating Old Americans
5: Healthy Physical Aging
6: The Politics of Healthy Aging
7: Gender, Class, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation
8: Ageism
9: Countercultural Gerontology
10: A Feminist's View of Gerontology and Women's Aging
Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Aging
References
About the Author
Recenzii
Doug Kimmel, writing in the Division 44 Newsletter, Society for the Psychological Study of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues, a division of the American Psychological Association: This third edition of Cruikshank's widely-used text makes two main points: 'The first is that aging in North America is shaped more by culture than biology, more by beliefs, customs, and traditions than by bodily changes. In other words, it is socially constructed. The second is that awareness of social constructions and resistance to them is crucial for women's comfortable aging.' She develops these two themes while making significant important points about countercultural gerontology and presents a feminist's view of aging. . . . This book is a useful tool to challenge student thinking about conventional views of aging and to help them broaden their horizons about ethnicity, race, class, sexual orientation, and aging from the standpoint of an old lesbian who is not about to go quietly into that good night.
Compared to traditional aging texts, Learning to Be Old is superior in that it conveys a critical point of view that is rarely present in most texts.
This book is unique, in that it 'gets at' the socially-constructed nature of aging better than any other book I've worked with. Cruikshank does a particularly good job of examining and discussing these differences as they relate to the experience of aging.
A compelling book that reminds us, among other things, that 'the personal is political' when we study women and aging.
Cruikshank's writing is accessible and timely; she expertly shows how 'old' is a socially scripted reality in an ageist society.
Learning to Be Old is a book as bold as its title. I have tremendous gratitude for the way Margaret Cruikshank rescues readers from societally induced self-blame. She sends us on our way better able to spend our final decades in informed, conscious, and competent ways, resisting the forces that discount us, but never discounting the reality of aging itself. Cruikshank is a welcome author for people who want to get beyond Hallmark simplicities and be accompanied honestly through the aging process by a vibrant scholar and staunch ally.
Hard-hitting, crystal-clear, packed with information and zesty quotations, Learning to Be Old deserves its popularity. It is the best introduction to age at the intersections - gender, race, class, sexuality - that a general reader could want. It uncovers a wide range of urgent issues - the minefields of American ageism that younger people need to know about before they get there.
In Learning to be Old, Margaret Cruikshank successfully "imagines new ways of understanding and experiencing late life," with a substantial amount of supporting data. Throughout the book, Cruikshank is attentive to aging as an individual, cultural, and intersectional experience. She considers how age interacts with diversities of race and ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and bodily ability. This edition's organized, compact sections make the information accessible to general readers. In the classroom, each section is sure to generate discussion. This book presents well-documented evidence about the ways in which people are schooled in aging, and discusses the many benefits that can come from changing how people learn to be old.
Praise from a previous edition: One of [the book's] strengths is its weaving of themes from different fields and disciplines. . . . Another is in presentation-it is informative, lively, and well researched.
The major contribution may be her analysis of the potential negative effects of women's family roles and her suspicion that grandmothers are being exploited. This book . . . raises a number of important questions.
Praise from a previous edition: In her excellent book, Learning to Be Old, Margaret Cruikshank compares the aged to a 'colonized people', suggesting that ageism goes beyond dehumanization into actual scapegoating of the old.
Praise from a previous edition: This text is such a gem that it is tempting to quote from it non-stop.
Praise from a previous edition: Learning to Be Old is a nice text for both the graduate and undergraduate levels, either in courses on the sociology of aging or in women's studies courses to provide a feminist perspective on aging.
Praise from a previous edition: Compressing a significant amount of important information on issues of race, gender, social class, economics, and ethnicity, Cruikshank has created a readable book on the general theme of gerontology. The current research, theories, and practices outlined by Cruikshank will give readers of all ages insights into 'learning to be old.' An extensive bibliography is provided for further study. Essential.
Praise from a previous edition: Sheds light on a particular bias inherent in studying this country's burgeoning aging population and asks why unlike gender, race, and sexual orientation-identities that have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena-aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses.
Praise from a previous edition: A valuable book on aging. Scholarly and well-documented.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues, a division of the American Psychological Association: This third edition of Cruikshank's widely-used text makes two main points: 'The first is that aging in North America is shaped more by culture than biology, more by beliefs, customs, and traditions than by bodily changes. In other words, it is socially constructed. The second is that awareness of social constructions and resistance to them is crucial for women's comfortable aging.' She develops these two themes while making significant important points about countercultural gerontology and presents a feminist's view of aging. . . . This book is a useful tool to challenge student thinking about conventional views of aging and to help them broaden their horizons about ethnicity, race, class, sexual orientation, and aging from the standpoint of an old lesbian who is not about to go quietly into that good night.
Compared to traditional aging texts, Learning to Be Old is superior in that it conveys a critical point of view that is rarely present in most texts.
This book is unique, in that it 'gets at' the socially-constructed nature of aging better than any other book I've worked with. Cruikshank does a particularly good job of examining and discussing these differences as they relate to the experience of aging.
A compelling book that reminds us, among other things, that 'the personal is political' when we study women and aging.
Cruikshank's writing is accessible and timely; she expertly shows how 'old' is a socially scripted reality in an ageist society.
Learning to Be Old is a book as bold as its title. I have tremendous gratitude for the way Margaret Cruikshank rescues readers from societally induced self-blame. She sends us on our way better able to spend our final decades in informed, conscious, and competent ways, resisting the forces that discount us, but never discounting the reality of aging itself. Cruikshank is a welcome author for people who want to get beyond Hallmark simplicities and be accompanied honestly through the aging process by a vibrant scholar and staunch ally.
Hard-hitting, crystal-clear, packed with information and zesty quotations, Learning to Be Old deserves its popularity. It is the best introduction to age at the intersections - gender, race, class, sexuality - that a general reader could want. It uncovers a wide range of urgent issues - the minefields of American ageism that younger people need to know about before they get there.
In Learning to be Old, Margaret Cruikshank successfully "imagines new ways of understanding and experiencing late life," with a substantial amount of supporting data. Throughout the book, Cruikshank is attentive to aging as an individual, cultural, and intersectional experience. She considers how age interacts with diversities of race and ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and bodily ability. This edition's organized, compact sections make the information accessible to general readers. In the classroom, each section is sure to generate discussion. This book presents well-documented evidence about the ways in which people are schooled in aging, and discusses the many benefits that can come from changing how people learn to be old.
Praise from a previous edition: One of [the book's] strengths is its weaving of themes from different fields and disciplines. . . . Another is in presentation-it is informative, lively, and well researched.
The major contribution may be her analysis of the potential negative effects of women's family roles and her suspicion that grandmothers are being exploited. This book . . . raises a number of important questions.
Praise from a previous edition: In her excellent book, Learning to Be Old, Margaret Cruikshank compares the aged to a 'colonized people', suggesting that ageism goes beyond dehumanization into actual scapegoating of the old.
Praise from a previous edition: This text is such a gem that it is tempting to quote from it non-stop.
Praise from a previous edition: Learning to Be Old is a nice text for both the graduate and undergraduate levels, either in courses on the sociology of aging or in women's studies courses to provide a feminist perspective on aging.
Praise from a previous edition: Compressing a significant amount of important information on issues of race, gender, social class, economics, and ethnicity, Cruikshank has created a readable book on the general theme of gerontology. The current research, theories, and practices outlined by Cruikshank will give readers of all ages insights into 'learning to be old.' An extensive bibliography is provided for further study. Essential.
Praise from a previous edition: Sheds light on a particular bias inherent in studying this country's burgeoning aging population and asks why unlike gender, race, and sexual orientation-identities that have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena-aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses.
Praise from a previous edition: A valuable book on aging. Scholarly and well-documented.