Successful Aging As a Contemporary Obsession : Global Perspectives.

Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Successful Aging as a Twenty-first-Century Obsession -- Part I: Gender, Sexuality, and the Allure of Anti-Aging -- Chapter 1: Successful Aging, Ageism, and the Maintenance of Age and Gender Relations -- Chapter 2: Opting In or Opting Out? North American Women Share Strategies for Aging Successfully with (and without) Cosmetic Intervention -- Chapter 3: Aging Out: Ageism, Heterosexism, and Racism among Aging African American Lesbians and Gay Men -- Chapter 4: Erectile Dysfunction as Successful Aging in Mexico -- Part II: Ideals of Independence, Interdependence, and Intimate Sociality in Later Life -- Chapter 5: Beyond Independence: Older Chicagoans Living Valued Lives -- Chapter 6: Growing Old with God: An Alternative Vision of Successful Aging among Catholic Nuns -- Chapter 7: Aspiring to Activity: Universities of the Third Age, Gardening, and Other Forms of Living in Postsocialist Poland -- Chapter 8: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? Friendship in the Face of Dementia -- Part III: National Policies and Everyday Practices: Individual and Collective Projects of Aging Well -- Chapter 9: Getting Old and Keeping Going: The Motivation Technologies of Active Aging in Denmark -- Chapter 10: Foolish Vitality: Humor, Risk, and Success in Japan -- Chapter 11: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing -- Chapter 12: Depreciating Age, Disintegrating Ties: On Being Old in a Century of Declining Elderhood in Kenya -- Part IV: Medicine, Morality, and Self: Lessons from Life's Ends -- Chapter 13: Successful Selves? Heroic Tales of Alzheimer's Disease and Personhood in Brazil -- Chapter 14: Comfortable Aging: Lessons for Living from Eighty-five and Beyond.

Chapter 15: Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? Aspirations of Aging and Dying in the United States and India -- Epilogue: Successful Aging and Desired Interdependence -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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