Chapter 5: Critical Gerontological Theory: Intellectual Fieldwork and the Nomadic Life of Ideas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Introduction 11
5. Part One: Aging, Life Course, and the Cultural Politics of Expertise
6. Chapter 1: Imagining the Life Span: From Premodern Miracles to Postmodern Fantasies 23
7. Chapter 2: Charcot’s Older Women: Bodies of Knowledge at the Interface of Aging Studies and Women’s Studies 37
8. Chapter 3: The Government of Detail: The Case of Social Policy on Aging 53
9. Chapter 4: Reflections on the Gerontological Handbook 70
10. Chapter 5: Critical Gerontological Theory: Intellectual Fieldwork and the Nomadic Life of Ideas 85
11. Chapter 6: Creativity Across the Life Course? Titian, Michelangelo, and Older Artist Narratives 101
12. Part Two: Lifestyle and the Fashioning of Senior Worlds
13. Chapter 7: Busy Bodies: Activity, Aging, and the Management of Everyday Life 121
14. Chapter 8: Exemplars of Retirement: Identity and Agency Between Lifestyle and Social Movement 140
15. Chapter 9: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body 161
16. Chapter 10: Growing Older Without Aging? Postmodern Time and Senior Markets 188
17. Chapter 11: Spaces of Age, Snowbirds, and the Gerontology of Mobility: The Elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida 202
18. Afterword: Aging Together 233
19. References 235
20. Index 263