Ageing, corporeality and embodiment:
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Beteilige Person: Gilleard, Chris ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Anthem Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:Key issues in modern sociology
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Identity, embodiment and the somatic turn in the social sciences -- Corporeality, embodiment and the "new ageing" -- Gender, ageing and embodiment -- Age and the racialised body -- Disability, ageing and identity -- Sexuality, ageing and identity -- Sex and ageing -- Cosmetics, clothing and fashionable ageing -- Fitness, exercise and the ageing body -- Ageing and aspirational medicine -- Conclusions ageing, forever embodied -- References -- Index
This book investigates the emergence of a 'new ageing' and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently - for ageing without becoming old
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (pages cm.)
ISBN:0857283294
0857283391
9780857283290
9780857283399