Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity

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Ulla Kriebernegg Roberta Maierhofer

Alive and Kicking at All Ages

Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity

Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenbock

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Transcript Verlag
27 March 2014

Popular culture; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Age groups: the elderly

Series: Aging Studies

The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role the notion of health plays in such an interaction.

Edited by: Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenbock
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Volume: 5
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 992g
ISBN: 9783837625820
ISBN 10: 3837625826
Series: Aging Studies
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 27 March 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ulla Kriebernegg (Dr.) is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests include North American Literature and Cultural Studies, Interculturality and Migration Studies, Inter-American Studies, Transatlantic Educational Cooperation, and Age/Aging Studies. Roberta Maierhofer is Professor of (Inter)American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and Adjunct Professor at Binghamton University, New York.