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1 online resource. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Global perspectives on aging series.
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Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Gender, sexuality, and the allure of anti-aging. Successful aging, ageism, and the maintenance of age and gender relations / Toni Calasanti and Neal King ; Opting in or opting out? North American women share strategies for aging successfully with (and without) cosmetic intervention / Abigail T. Brooks ; Aging out: ageism, heterosexism, and racism among aging African American lesbians and gay men / Imani Woody ; Erectile dysfunction as successful aging in Mexico / Emily Wentzell -- pt. 2. Ideals of independence, interdependence, and intimate sociality in later life ; Beyond independence: older Chicagoans living valued lives / Elana D. Buch ; Growing old with God: an alternative vision of successful aging among Catholic nuns / Anna I. Corwin ; Aspiring to activity: universities of the third age, gardening, and other forms of living in postsocialist Poland / Jessica Robbins-Ruszkowski ; Should old acquaintance be forgot? Friendship in the face of dementia / Janelle S. Taylor -- pt. 3. National policies and everyday practices: individual and collective projects of aging well. Getting old and keeping going: the motivation technologies of active aging in Denmark / Aske Juul Lassen and Astrid Pernille Jespersen ; Foolish vitality: humor, risk, and success in Japan / Jason Danely ; Nurturing life in contemporary Beijing / Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang ; Depreciating age, disintegrating ties: on being old in a century of declining elderhood in Kenya / Janet McIntosh -- pt. 4. Medicine, morality, and self: lessons from life's ends. Successful selves? Heroic tales of Alzheimer's disease and personhood in Brazil / Annette Leibing ; Comfortable aging: lessons for living from eighty-five and beyond / Meika Loe ; Ageless aging or meaningful decline? Aspirations of aging and dying in the United States and India / Sarah Lamb -- Epilogue: Successful aging and desired interdependence / Susan Reynolds Whyte. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Older people -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Added Author |
Lamb, Sarah, 1960- editor.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Related To |
Original 9780813585345 0813585341 9780813585338 0813585333 (DLC) 2016033721 |
| ISBN |
9780813585369 (electronic bk.) |
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0813585368 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813585345 |
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0813585341 |
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9780813585338 |
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0813585333 |
| OCLC # |
EBC4789876 |
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