Aging Identity : A Dialogue with Postmodernism.

Intro -- AGING IDENTITY: A DIALOGUE WITH POSTMODERNISM -- AGING IDENTITY: A DIALOGUE WITH POSTMODERNISM -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: POSTMODERNISM AND AGING IDENTITY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 PHENOMENOLOGIES OF AGING - CRITICAL REFLECTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ORIGINS OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORIZING -- PHENOMENOLOGY AND AGING -- I. Aging and Biomedicalization -- II. Aging Identity -- BIOGRAPHY AND AGING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 "MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG": A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF AGING WITH CEREBRAL PALSY -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY FOCUS ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE? -- MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG… HOW IT ALL STARTED FOR ME -- NOT KNOWING WHEN 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH' -- BEGINNING TO COME TO TERMS WITH AGING -- WHAT NEXT? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 THE ABSENCE OF ADAM: PROSTATE CANCER AND MALE IDENTITY -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE RISE OF MEDICAL INTERVENTION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION OF PROSTATE CANCER -- SHIFTING MEANINGS OF 'AGING SEXUALITY' -- 2. EMBODYING AND CONSTRUCTING MALE IDENTITY -- TRANSGRESSING NORMATIVE MASCULINITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 SOCIAL IMAGERY, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE: A POSTMODERN ASSESSMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- LIFE COURSE AND IMAGERY -- LIFE COURSE AND HOLISM: PROBLEMS WITH LINEARITY -- POSTMODERNISM AND THE OLD METAPHYSICS -- NEW IMAGERY AND A BETTER HOLISM -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 AGE, SEXUALITY AND THE SPORTING BODY: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPY OF SLIPPING AROUND AND THROUGH A STATE OF 'BEING HEALTHY WITHOUT FEELING HEALTHY' -- INTRODUCTION -- RUNNING IS GLOBAL FOR WOMEN -- February 2008 -- November 2004 -- CONNECTING THE PERSONAL TO THE CULTURAL: AUTOETHNOGRAPHY -- January 2005 -- THE POST MENOPAUSAL LESBIAN BODY: AN OUT OF DATE COMMODITY? -- June 2005 -- July 2005.

DIETING REGIMES AS DISTORTING 'NORMAL' TECHNOLOGIES OF THE 'LESBIAN' SELF -- September 2005 -- February 2006 -- October 2008 -- CONCLUSION: FINDING MY OLD, NOMADIC LESBIAN BODY IN A 'ZONE OF HIGH TURBULENCE' -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 'NOT OLD' AND 'OLD': POSTMODERN IDENTITIES IN A NEW LIFESTAGE -- INTRODUCTION -- WEAKNESSES IN THE MODERNIST PARADIGM -- POSTMODERNISM AND IDENTITY -- 'Not Old' as an Overarching Identity -- 'Old' as Identity -- 'Old' as a Right -- Group Identities in Later Life -- Power and Resistance -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES: POSTMODERNISM, PRAGMATISM AND A THIRD WAY? -- INTRODUCTION -- IDENTITY, PRAGMATISM AND POSTMODERNISM -- SLEEP, OLDER MEN AND IDENTITY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 CLOTHING, IDENTITY AND THE EMBODIMENT OF AGE -- INTRODUCTION -- CLOTHING AND IDENTITY -- AGE AND IDENTITY -- CLOTHING AND THE BODY -- CONSUMPTION CULTURE AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF OLD AGE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 REDEFINING AGING AND IDENTITY: REINVENTION THROUGH EDUCATION AS A POSTMODERN DYNAMIC -- INTRODUCTION -- REINVENTION -- AGING STUDENT BODY AS A CHALLENGE TO HIGHER EDUCATION -- REINVENTION FUELED BY DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES AND RESULTING PSYCHOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES -- RESTRICTIONS OF THE LANGUAGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

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