Aging and everyday life / edited by Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Conceptualizing the Aging Experience -- 1. The Cultural Trap: The Language of Images -- 2. The Personal Trap: The Language of Self-Presentation -- 3. Further Thoughts on the Theory of Disengagement -- 4. A Current Theoretical Issue in Social Gerontology -- 5. A Continuity Theory of Normal Aging -- Further Reading to Part I -- Pt. II. Aging and Identity -- 6. A Decade of Reminders: Changing Age Consciousness between Fifty and Sixty Years Old -- 7. Identity Foreclosure: Women's Experiences of Widowhood as Expressed in Autobiographical Accounts -- 8. The Ageless Self -- Further Reading to Part II -- Pt. III. Work and Retirement -- 9. Retirement as a Social Role -- 10. The Unbearable Lightness of Retirement: Ritual and Support in a Modern Life Passage -- 11. "One of Your Better Low-Class Hotels" -- 12. "Making It" -- Further Reading to Part III -- Pt. IV. Interpersonal Relationships -- 13. Friendship Styles -- 14. The Significance of Work Friends in Late Life -- 15. Filial Obligations and Kin Support for Elderly People -- Further Reading to Part IV -- Pt. V. Living Arrangements -- 16. Parental Dependence and Filial Responsibility in the Nineteenth Century: Hial Hawley and Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1884-1885 -- 17. An Old Age Community -- 18. Resisting Institutionalization: Constructing Old Age and Negotiating Home -- Further Reading to Part V -- Pt. VI. The Aging Body -- 19. Managing Aging in Young Adulthood: The "Aging" Table Dancer -- 20. Narratives of the Gendered Body in Popular Autobiography -- 21. Stigmatizing a "Normal" Condition: Urinary Incontinence in Late Life -- Further Reading to Part VI -- Pt. VII. The Aging Mind -- 22. Geriatric Ideology: The Myth of the Myth of Senility -- 23. Bringing the Social Back In: A Critique of the Biomedicalization of Dementia -- 24. The Mask of Dementia: Images of "Demented Residents" in a Nursing Ward -- Further Reading to Part VII -- Pt. VIII. Caring and Caregiving -- 25. The Dependent Elderly, Home Health Care, and Strategies of Household Adaptation -- 26. The Unencumbered Child: Family Reputations and Responsibilities in the Care of Relatives with Alzheimer's Disease -- 27. Nursing Homes as Trouble -- Further Reading to Part VIII -- Pt. IX. Death and Bereavement -- 28. A Death in Due Time: Conviction, Order, and Continuity in Ritual Drama -- 29. Death in Very Old Age: A Personal Journey of Caregiving -- 30. The Social Context of Grief Among Adult Daughters Who Have Lost a Parent -- Further Reading to Part IX -- Index.