Ending ageism : or, how not to shoot old people /
Gullette, Margaret Morganroth,
Ending ageism : or, how not to shoot old people / Margaret Morganroth Gullette. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Global perspectives on aging .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: fight ageism, not aging: the discovery of trauma -- #still human: into the glare of the public square -- How (not) to shoot old people: breaking ageist paradigms through portrait photography -- The elder-hostile: giving college students a better start at life -- Vert-de-gris: rescuing the land lovers -- The Alzheimer's defense: "faking bad" in international atrocity trials -- Our frightened world: fantasies of euthanasia and preemptive suicide -- Induction into the hall of shame: when aging serves as the trigger for ageism, shaming is its weapon -- Redress: overcoming trauma, repairing relationships, healing society -- Epilogue: a declaration of grievances.
In Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette raises urgent legal, economic, educational, esthetic, and ethical issues to show why anti-ageism should be the next social movement of our time.
9780813589312
Ageism.
Ageism.
Aging--Social aspects.
Aging--Psychological aspects.
Older people--Social conditions.
Electronic Books.
HQ1061 / .E535 2017
Ending ageism : or, how not to shoot old people / Margaret Morganroth Gullette. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Global perspectives on aging .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: fight ageism, not aging: the discovery of trauma -- #still human: into the glare of the public square -- How (not) to shoot old people: breaking ageist paradigms through portrait photography -- The elder-hostile: giving college students a better start at life -- Vert-de-gris: rescuing the land lovers -- The Alzheimer's defense: "faking bad" in international atrocity trials -- Our frightened world: fantasies of euthanasia and preemptive suicide -- Induction into the hall of shame: when aging serves as the trigger for ageism, shaming is its weapon -- Redress: overcoming trauma, repairing relationships, healing society -- Epilogue: a declaration of grievances.
In Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette raises urgent legal, economic, educational, esthetic, and ethical issues to show why anti-ageism should be the next social movement of our time.
9780813589312
Ageism.
Ageism.
Aging--Social aspects.
Aging--Psychological aspects.
Older people--Social conditions.
Electronic Books.
HQ1061 / .E535 2017