TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kriebernegg,Ulla
AU  - Maierhofer,Roberta
AU  - Ratzenböck,Barbara
TI  - Alive and kicking at all ages: cultural constructions of health and life course identity 
T2  - Aging studies
SN  - 9783839425824
AV  - HQ1061 .A559 2014eb
U1  - 305.26 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - Transcript
KW  - Older people
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Aging
KW  - Personnes âgées
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Vieillissement
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
N1  - International conference proceedings, 2012, Izmir, Turkey; Includes bibliographical references; Frontmatter --; Content --; Re-Thinking Material Realities and Cultural Representations of Age and Aging; Kriebernegg, Ulla ; Maierhofer, Roberta ; Ratzenböck, Barbara --; Ageility Studies; Marshall, Leni --; I May be Old and Sick, But I Am Still a Person; Lunsford, Beverly --; Health and Everyday Bodily Experiences of Old Mexican Women; Makita, Meiko --; Kwik-Fit versus Varying Speeds of Aging; Bendien, Elena --; Preemptive Biographies; Kunow, Rüdiger --; Internalization or Social Comparison?; Wangler, Julian --; Combating Age Discrimination in the Workplace; Boulot, Elisabeth --; "There's a reason we're here" Performative Autobiographics and Age Identity in Per former- Created Intergenerational Theatre; Chivers, Sally ; Barnet, David ; Eales, Jacquie ; Fast, Janet --; Images of Living and Ageing; Edmondson, Ricca ; Fairhurst, Eileen --; She's Been Away; Wilson, Sherryl --; Illness and Love in Old Age; Dackweiler, Meike --; Uncanny Witnessing; DeFalco, Amelia --; Shaking off Shackles; Life, Patricia --; "Old women that will not be kept away"; Matlok-Ziemann, Ellen --; Scrutinizing the "Medical Glance"; Cerezo Moreno, Marta --; Wisdom versus Frailty in Ursula K. Le Guin's Voices and Doris Lessing's "The Reason for It"; Oró-Piqueras, Maricel --; From Cane to Chair; Ogihara-Schuck, Eriko --; Contributors
N2  - 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
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