Alive and kicking at all ages : cultural constructions of health and life course identity / Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck (eds.).

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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.

Summary: 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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International conference proceedings, 2012, Izmir, Turkey.

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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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