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Informationen zum Autor Ruth E. Ray is professor of English/liberal arts at Wayne State University. Toni Calasanti is professor of sociology at Virginia Tech. Klappentext Nobody's Burden: Lessons on Old Age from the Great Depression is the first book-length study of the experience of old-age during the Great Depression. Part history, part social critique, the contributors rely on archival research, social history, narrative study and theoretical analysis to argue that Americans today, as in the past, need to rethink old-age policy and accept their shared responsibility for elder care. A must read for historians, gerontologists, and social workers. Using an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this book examines the construction and experience of (old-age_ burden and dependency in depression era America and beyond. Fourteen scholars from a range of disciplines came together over two years to read and discuss the same materials and to create, successfully, 'a new object which belongs to no one'. Even with a multiplicity of perspectives, the book achieves coherence, with many connections across the chapters and an overarching desire to investigate, problematise and overcome discourses of burden and their effects. This is a book of wide relevance, not just for social gerontologists in their many guises, but to anyone seeking a model of how deep and coherent interdisciplinary work can be managed. Journal of Ageing & Society Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Studying the 'Burden' of Age: The Work of the Hannan Archival Research GroupPart 2 Part I: The Burden of Age in the Great DepressionChapter 3 Chapter 2: Public Response to the Needs of Old PeopleChapter 4 Chapter 3: Private Response to the Needs of Old PeoplePart 5 Part II: This Old Man and That Old WomanChapter 6 Client SketchesPart 7 Part III: Old Age in Hard TimesChapter 8 Chapter 4: The Multiple Roles of Social Workers in the Great DepressionChapter 9 Chapter 5: Resisting Dependence and Burden: On Refusing to Become a 'Little Old Lady'Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Privileged but Pensioned? How Two Formerly Well-Off Women Experienced Receiving AidChapter 11 Chapter 7: What is Held Dear: Personhood and Material Culture in Old AgeChapter 12 Chapter 8: Race, Class, Gender and the Social Construction of 'Burden' in Old AgeChapter 13 Chapter 9: The Haunting Fear: Narrative Burdens in the Great DepressionPart 14 Part IV: Rethinking the 'Burden' of AgeChapter 15 Chapter 10: Reflections on Ageism: Perspective of a Septuagenarianon the Avoidance of BurdenhoodChapter 16 Chapter 11: The Continuing Struggle for Old-Age SecurityChapter 17 Chapter 12: Toward a Future When We Truly Care for Old PeopleChapter 18 Afterword: From Charity to Care...
