Critical approaches to ageing and later life / edited by Anne Jamieson, Sarah Harper, Christina Victor.
Material type: TextPublisher: Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1997Description: x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0335197256
- 9780335197255
- 0335197264
- 9780335197262
- 305.26
- HQ1064.G7 C75 1997
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 305.26 CRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A176286B |
Chiefly based on papers presented at the 1994 Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Talking about age: the theoretical basis of social gerontology -- 2. Critical gerontology -- 3. From minorities to majorities: perspectives on culture, ethnicity and ageing in British gerontology -- 4. The uses of literature in the study of older people -- 5. Historical research into ageing, old age and older people -- 6. Recalling life: analytical issues in the use of 'memories' -- 7. Inter-generational relationships: an autobiographical perspective -- 8. Spatiality and age relations -- 9. Representations of old age in painting and photography -- 10. Citizenship theory and old age: from social rights to surveillance -- 11. Illustrating care: images of care relationships with older people -- 12. Figuring identities: older people, medicine and time -- 13. Constructing later life/constructing the body: some thoughts from feminist theory -- 14. Theory and concepts in social gerontology -- Index.
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