Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing: A Critical IntroductionOpen University Press, 2003 - 191 páginas Presents a critical review of key theoretical developments and issues influencing the study of adult ageing. This book explores trends in social policy, drawing on the experience of ageing in the USA, Europe and an increasingly global environment. Particular attention is given to feminist perspectives on ageing, ethics and bio-medicine. |
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... ageing as attempts to shape age identity , and biomedicine and ethics as regulators of intergenerational and professional relations . Chapter 4 addresses the development of a feminist approach to adult age- ing and some implications for ...
... ageing as attempts to shape age identity , and biomedicine and ethics as regulators of intergenerational and professional relations . Chapter 4 addresses the development of a feminist approach to adult age- ing and some implications for ...
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... old people are not educable ' ( Freud [ 1905 ] 1953 : 264 ) . The model of identity emerging from psychoanalysis is , when viewed from the perspective of adult ageing , subject to considerable bias . First , it clearly privileges ...
... old people are not educable ' ( Freud [ 1905 ] 1953 : 264 ) . The model of identity emerging from psychoanalysis is , when viewed from the perspective of adult ageing , subject to considerable bias . First , it clearly privileges ...
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... older adults now behave like the generation below them , to claiming that the social categoriza- tion of adult ageing has been abolished . It is an even more radical leap to claim , as Featherstone and Wernick ( 1995 ) have , that ...
... older adults now behave like the generation below them , to claiming that the social categoriza- tion of adult ageing has been abolished . It is an even more radical leap to claim , as Featherstone and Wernick ( 1995 ) have , that ...
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Desire for continuity | 31 |
Identity and the body | 37 |
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