Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity
Ulla Kriebernegg · Roberta Maierhofer · Barbara Ratzenböck
Jun 2014 · Aging Studies Book 5 · transcript Verlag
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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.
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Roberta Maierhofer ist Professorin für Amerikanistik und Leiterin des Zentrums für Inter-Amerikanische Studien der Universität Graz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Transatlantische Bildungskooperationen, Interkulturalität, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, kulturelle Gerontologie und Alternswissenschaften.
Barbara Ratzenböck, geb. 1985, ist Senior Scientist am Zentrum für Inter-Amerikanische Studien der Universität Graz. In ihrer Forschung befasst sie sich mit den Verschränkungen von Digitalisierungsprozessen, (Medien-)Generationen und Gender.
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