Published by University of Toronto Press 2005

Cultural Aging

Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds

Stephen Katz

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442602083

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"With this collection of imaginative, wide-ranging essays, Stephen Katz secures his place as his generation's foremost proponent of cultural aging." - W. Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston

Author / Editor information

Katz Stephen :

Stephen Katz is a Professor of Sociology at Trent Unversity in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge, 1996. He has written widely on issues of aging and gerontology.

Reviews

Jay Gubrium, University of Missouri:

Stephen Katz opens our eyes to the exhilarating possibilities for the aging experience. His analytic lenses touch on issues of governmentality, identity, agency, embodiment, gender, and sexuality. Katz tells us what we need to know to see through commodified formulations of the later years—that a critical curiosity serves to construct an unending panorama of worlds both for those who are old and those who have just begun the journey. It's quite a contribution.

W. Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston:

With this collection of imaginative, wide-ranging essays, Stephen Katz secures his place as his generation's foremost proponent of cultural aging. The volume recasts issues in gerontology through the lens of contemporary theories in the humanities and social sciences, as it raises new questions.

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

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Coursebook

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Published: July 1, 2005
ISBN: 9781442602083