Successful aging as a contemporary obsession : global perspectives / edited by Sarah Lamb.

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Lamb, Sarah, 1960- []

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online resource

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9780813585369

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HQ1061 .S833 2017

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Subject: Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession exposes and complicates contemporary readings of successful aging, questioning and defamiliarizing Western visions of the place of old age in the life course. This volume brings fresh insight and international perspectives that expand our collective imagination about what it is to age, and, by extension, to live.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Series Page ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Successful Aging as a Twenty-first-Century Obsession; Part I: Gender, Sexuality, and the Allure of Anti-Aging; Chapter 1: Successful Aging, Ageism, and the Maintenance of Age and Gender Relations; Chapter 2: Opting In or Opting Out? North American Women Share Strategies for Aging Successfully with (and without) Cosmetic Intervention; Chapter 3: Aging Out: Ageism, Heterosexism, and Racism among Aging African American Lesbians and Gay Men; Chapter 4: Erectile Dysfunction as Successful Aging in Mexico

Part II: Ideals of Independence, Interdependence, and Intimate Sociality in Later LifeChapter 5: Beyond Independence: Older Chicagoans Living Valued Lives; Chapter 6: Growing Old with God: An Alternative Vision of Successful Aging among Catholic Nuns; Chapter 7: Aspiring to Activity: Universities of the Third Age, Gardening, and Other Forms of Living in Postsocialist Poland; Chapter 8: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? Friendship in the Face of Dementia; Part III: National Policies and Everyday Practices: Individual and Collective Projects of Aging Well

Chapter 9: Getting Old and Keeping Going: The Motivation Technologies of Active Aging in DenmarkChapter 10: Foolish Vitality: Humor, Risk, and Success in Japan; Chapter 11: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing; Chapter 12: Depreciating Age, Disintegrating Ties: On Being Old in a Century of Declining Elderhood in Kenya; Part IV: Medicine, Morality, and Self: Lessons from Life's Ends; Chapter 13: Successful Selves? Heroic Tales of Alzheimer's Disease and Personhood in Brazil; Chapter 14: Comfortable Aging: Lessons for Living from Eighty-five and Beyond

Chapter 15: Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? Aspirations of Aging and Dying in the United States and IndiaEpilogue: Successful Aging and Desired Interdependence; Notes on Contributors; Index

Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession exposes and complicates contemporary readings of successful aging, questioning and defamiliarizing Western visions of the place of old age in the life course. This volume brings fresh insight and international perspectives that expand our collective imagination about what it is to age, and, by extension, to live.

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