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Changing perceptions of aging and the aged

Title
  1. Changing perceptions of aging and the aged / Dena Shenk, W. Andrew Achenbaum, editors.
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  1. New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©1994.

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Additional authors
  1. Shenk, Dena.
  2. Achenbaum, W. Andrew.
Description
  1. xvi, 183 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Gerontological research on societal perceptions of the elderly.
Subject
  1. Ageism
  2. Older people in popular culture
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. Not Losing Her Memory: Images of Family in Photography, Words and Collage / Joanne Leonard -- Ch. 2. Reflections on "The Ageless Self" / Sharon R. Kaufman -- Ch. 3. Erik Erikson: Ages, Stages, and Stories / Steven Weiland -- Ch. 4. Simone de Beauvoir: Prospects for the Future of Older Women / Kathleen Woodward -- Ch. 5. A Personal Journey of Aging: The Spiritual Dimension / Mel Kimble -- Ch. 6. Cultural Lags in Social Perceptions of the Aged / Douglas E. Crews -- Ch. 7. Images of Old Age in America 1790-1970 -- After a Second Look / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- Ch. 8. Ancient Images of Aging: Did Ageism Exist in Greco-Roman Antiquity? / Judith de Luce -- Ch. 9. "And the Fear of the Poorhouse" Perceptions of Old Age Impoverishment in Elderly Twentieth-Century America / Carole Haber -- Ch. 10. Images of Aging: A Cross-Cultural Perspective / Jay Sokolovsky -- Ch. 11. The Last Quilting Bee / Iris Carlton-LaNey.
  2. Ch. 12. Images of Home Death and the Elderly Patient: Romantic Versus Real / Andrea Sankar -- Ch. 13. Evolving Images of Place in Aging and "Aging in Place" / Graham D. Rowles -- Ch. 14. Visual Images of Aging Women / Dena Shenk and Ron Schmid -- Ch. 15. Dispelling Ageism: The Cross-Cutting Intervention / Robert N. Butler -- Ch. 16. The "Graying" of the Federal Budget Revised / Robert B. Hudson -- Ch. 17. Representations of Aging in Contemporary Literary Works / Robert E. Yahnke -- Ch. 18. Perspectives on Aging in Print Journalism / Maria D. Vesperi -- Ch. 19. Verbal Imagery of Aging in the News Magazines / Leonard Cirillo.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Originally issued as v. 17, no. 2 of Generations, the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.