Alive and kicking at all ages
Subtitle: cultural constructions of health and life course identity
By: Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck (eds.).
Contributors: European Association for American Studies
Series: Aging studies -- volume 5; Aging studies -- v. 5.
Publisher: Transcript
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bielefeld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9783837625820; 9783839425824
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Older people; Congresses; Aging
Notes: International conference proceedings, 2012, Izmir, Turkey.

"This volume came out of the biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) in Izmir/Turkey in the spring of 2012." page 10

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Re-thinking material realities and cultural representations of age and aging -- Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck; title: Material realities --; title: Ageility studies the interplay of criticial approaches in age studies and disability studies -- Leni Marshall; title: I may be old and sick, but I am still a person -- Beverly Lunsford; title: Health and everyday bodily experiences of old Mexican women -- Meiko Makita; title: Kwik-fit versus various speeds of aging -- Elena Bendien; title: preemtive biographies life and the life course in the age of security administration -- Rüdiger Kunow; title: Internalization or social comparison? an empirical investigation of the influence of media (re)presentations of age on the subjective health perception and age experience of older people -- Julian Wangler; title: Combating age discrimination in the workplace a study of the United States' rights-based response -- Elisabeth Boulot; title: Cultural representations --; title: "There's a reason we're here" performative autobiographies and age identity in performer-created intergenerational theatre -- Sally Chivers, David Barnet, Jacquie Eales, and Janet Fast; title: Images of living and ageing counter-cultural constructions of health and wisdom -- Ricca Edmondson and Eileen Fairhurst; title: She's been away ageing, madness and memory -- Sherryl Wilson; title: Illness and love in old age Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge -- Meike Dackweiler; title: Uncanny Witnessing dementia, narrative, and identity in fiction by Munro and Franzen -- Amelia DeFalco; title: Shaking off shackles LTC Havens in The bear came over the mountain and The other sister -- Patricia Life; title: "Old women that will not be kept away" undermining ageist discourse with invisibility and performance -- Ellen Matlok-Ziemann; title: Scrutinizing the "medical glance" bodily decay, disease and death in Margaret Atwood's The edible woman -- Marta Cerezo Moreno; title: Wisdom versus frailty in Ursula K. Guin's Voices and Doris Lessing's The reason for it -- Marciel Oró-Piqueras; title: From cane to chair old age and storytelling in juvenile literature by Hawthorne, Goodrich, and Mogridge-- Eriko Ogihara-Schuck.