Author: Brian Worsfold
Publisher: Universitat de Lleida
ISBN: 8484094995
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Language: en
Pages: 40
Pages: 40
Language: en
Pages: 141
Pages: 141
Books about Women Ageing. Literature and Experience
Language: en
Pages: 231
Pages: 231
New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors analyse how a broad range of literary and visual texts construct, reinscribe, or challenge
Language: de
Pages: 896
Pages: 896
Ob in dem kleinen Apartment in Queens, in dem Eileen in den 1940er- und 50er-Jahren aufwächst, gelacht oder geweint wird, kommt ganz darauf an, wer gerade zu Besuch ist oder wieviel getrunken wird. Nicht ihre Eltern möchten, dass sie es einmal besser hat – sie selbst will dieser Enge unbedingt
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
This timely collection engages with representations of women and ageing in literature and visual culture. Acknowledging that cultural conceptions of ageing are constructed and challenged across a variety of media and genres, the editors bring together experts in literature and visual culture to foster a dialogue across disciplines. Exploring the
Language: en
Pages: 136
Pages: 136
This edited collection considers the ways older women’s life narratives redefine culturally imposed conceptions of what it means to grow older. Drawing on research from age studies as well as social and cultural gerontology, the contributors explore the subjective accounts and diverse voices of older women. In doing so, they
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. They consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook)
Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
·What factors underpin dominant understandings of later life sexuality? · How do older people experience and prioritise sexuality and sexual health? ·What sexual health issues are relevant to older people and how are these addressed by health care professionals? This is the first book to integrate theoretical insights into sexuality,
Language: en
Pages: 326
Pages: 326
Drawing on sixteenth- to twenty-first-century American, British, French, German, Polish, Norwegian and Russian literature and philosophy, this collection teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity and selfhood. The internationally known humanistic gerontologist Jan Baars, the prominent historian of old age David