Aging and everyday life /
edited by Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein.
- xiii, 483 p.
- Blackwell readers in sociology .
- Blackwell readers in sociology. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing the Aging Experience -- The Cultural Trap: The Language of Images -- The Personal Trap: The Language of Self-Presentation -- Further Thoughts on the Theory of Disengagement -- A Current Theoretical Issue in Social Gerontology -- A Continuity Theory of Normal Aging -- Further Reading to Part I -- Aging and Identity -- A Decade of Reminders: Changing Age Consciousness between Fifty and Sixty Years Old -- Identity Foreclosure: Women's Experiences of Widowhood as Expressed in Autobiographical Accounts -- The Ageless Self -- Further Reading to Part II -- Work and Retirement -- Retirement as a Social Role -- The Unbearable Lightness of Retirement: Ritual and Support in a Modern Life Passage -- "One of Your Better Low-Class Hotels" -- "Making It" -- Further Reading to Part III -- Interpersonal Relationships -- Friendship Styles -- The Significance of Work Friends in Late Life -- Filial Obligations and Kin Support for Elderly People -- Further Reading to Part IV -- Living Arrangements -- Parental Dependence and Filial Responsibility in the Nineteenth Century: Hial Hawley and Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1884-1885 -- An Old Age Community -- Resisting Institutionalization: Constructing Old Age and Negotiating Home -- Further Reading to Part V -- The Aging Body -- Managing Aging in Young Adulthood: The "Aging" Table Dancer -- Narratives of the Gendered Body in Popular Autobiography -- Stigmatizing a "Normal" Condition: Urinary Incontinence in Late Life -- Further Reading to Part VI -- The Aging Mind -- Geriatric Ideology: The Myth of the Myth of Senility -- Bringing the Social Back In: A Critique of the Biomedicalization of Dementia -- The Mask of Dementia: Images of "Demented Residents" in a Nursing Ward -- Further Reading to Part VII -- Caring and Caregiving -- The Dependent Elderly, Home Health Care, and Strategies of Household Adaptation -- The Unencumbered Child: Family Reputations and Responsibilities in the Care of Relatives with Alzheimer's Disease -- Nursing Homes as Trouble -- Further Reading to Part VIII -- Death and Bereavement -- A Death in Due Time: Conviction, Order, and Continuity in Ritual Drama -- Death in Very Old Age: A Personal Journey of Caregiving -- The Social Context of Grief Among Adult Daughters Who Have Lost a Parent -- Further Reading to Part IX -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. II. 6. 7. 8. Pt. III. 9. 10. 11. 12. Pt. IV. 13. 14. 15. Pt. V. 16. 17. 18. Pt. VI. 19. 20. 21. Pt. VII. 22. 23. 24. Pt. VIII. 25. 26. 27. Pt. IX. 28. 29. 30.