Aged by Culture - Brossura

Gullette, Margaret Morganroth

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ISBN 10: 0226310620 ISBN 13: 9780226310626

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2004

Riassunto

Americans enjoy longer lives and better health, yet we are becoming increasingly obsessed with trying to stay young. What drives the fear of turning 30, the boom in anti-aging products, the wars between generations? What men and women of all ages have in common is that we are being insidiously aged by the culture in which we live.

In this illuminating book, Margaret Morganroth Gullette reveals that aging doesn't start in our chromosomes, but in midlife downsizing, the erosion of workplace seniority, threats to Social Security, or media portrayals of "aging Xers" and "greedy" Baby Boomers. To combat the forces aging us prematurely, Gullette invites us to change our attitudes, our life storytelling, and our society. Part intimate autobiography, part startling cultural expose, this book does for age what gender and race studies have done for their categories. Aged by Culture is an impassioned manifesto against the pernicious ideologies that steal hope from every stage of our lives.

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L'autore:

Margaret Morganroth Gullette is the author of Declining to Decline, winner of an award as the best feminist book on American popular culture, and ofSafe at Last in the Middle Years. She is a resident scholar, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.

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Book by Gullette Margaret Morganroth

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0226310620
• ISBN 13: 9780226310626
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 278