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100 1 _aLamb, Sarah.
245 1 0 _aSuccessful Aging As a Contemporary Obsession :
_bGlobal Perspectives.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017.
300 _a1 online resource (286 pages)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aGlobal Perspectives on Aging Series
505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
505 8 _aChapter 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.
520 _aNo detailed description available for "Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession".
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aAging-Social aspects-Cross-cultural studies.
650 0 _aOlder people-Cross-cultural studies.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aRobbins-Ruszkowski, Jessica.
700 1 _aCorwin, Anna.
700 1 _aCalasanti, Toni.
700 1 _aKing, Neal.
700 1 _aBrooks, Abigail.
700 1 _aWoody, Imani.
700 1 _aWentzell, Emily.
700 1 _aBuch, Elana.
700 1 _aTaylor, Janelle S.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aLamb, Sarah
_tSuccessful Aging As a Contemporary Obsession
_dNew Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,c2017
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797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aGlobal Perspectives on Aging Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4789876
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