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The Resource Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging, Margaret Cruikshank

Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging, Margaret Cruikshank

Label
Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging
Title
Learning to be old
Title remainder
gender, culture, and aging
Statement of responsibility
Margaret Cruikshank
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Cruikshank, Margaret
Dewey number
305.26
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Aging
  • Older people
  • Aging
  • Aged
  • Attitude to Health
  • Prejudice
  • Social Values
  • Women
Label
Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging, Margaret Cruikshank
Link
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008031588.html
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-241) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Cultural myths and aging -- Fear of an aging population -- Sickness and other social roles of old people -- Overmedicating old Americans -- Healthy physical aging -- The politics of healthy aging -- Gender, class, and ethnicity -- Ageism -- Prescribed busyness and its antidotes -- A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging -- Conclusion: the paradoxes of aging
Control code
763749
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
Second edition.
Extent
xi, 253 pages
Isbn
9780742565944
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2008031588
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780742565944
  • (OCoLC)236143177
Label
Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging, Margaret Cruikshank
Link
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008031588.html
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-241) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Cultural myths and aging -- Fear of an aging population -- Sickness and other social roles of old people -- Overmedicating old Americans -- Healthy physical aging -- The politics of healthy aging -- Gender, class, and ethnicity -- Ageism -- Prescribed busyness and its antidotes -- A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging -- Conclusion: the paradoxes of aging
Control code
763749
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
Second edition.
Extent
xi, 253 pages
Isbn
9780742565944
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2008031588
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780742565944
  • (OCoLC)236143177

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