The shady side of fifty : age and old age in late Victorian Canada and the United States / Lisa Dillon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-328) and index.

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Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Organization of Age: Age and Old Age in the Canadian and US Censuses, 1870�1901 -- 3 The Expression of Age: Age(Mis)reporting in the Canadian and US Censuses -- 4 Ambiguity and Discontinuity in the Lives of Elderly Women -- 5 Thresholds of Old Age among Men -- 6 Grandmothers and Grandfathers -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V

Concerns about aging, old age security, and intergenerational relations existed long before youth culture and falling fertility became such popular media topics. Lisa Dillon uses an examination of the censuses of Canada and the U.S. to break new ground by integrating statistical analyses of the historical data with a discourse analysis of ideas about age and old age. In The Shady Side of Fifty she explores the psychological, social, and economic dimensions of aging during a period of socio-economic and demographic change that mirrors the present day.

English.

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