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Informationen zum Autor MARGARET MORGANROTH GULLETTE is an internationally known pioneer in age studies and a cultural critic and award-winning writer of nonfiction, an essayist, a feminist, and an education activist. Her most recent book, Agewise, won a 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award. She has been published widely in major media, including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Ms., Atlantic Monthly online, Boston Globe, Dissent, AlterNet, Forward, and Tikkun. A recipient of NEH, ACLS, and Bunting Fellowships, she is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center in Waltham, Massachusetts. Klappentext As people live longer lives! today's great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations! beyond the reach of law or public policy. Margaret Morganroth Gullette confronts the offenders: the ways people aging past midlife are portrayed in the media; the esthetics and politics of representation in photography! film! and theatre; and the incitement to commit suicide for those with early signs of ""dementia"". Zusammenfassung In Ending Ageism! or How Not to Shoot Old People! award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette raises urgent legal! economic! educational! esthetic! and ethical issues to show why anti-ageism should be the next social movement of our time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Fight Ageism, Not Aging: The Discovery of Trauma xi 1 #Still Human Into the Glare of the Public Square 1 Five Special Sessions 21 2 How (Not) to Shoot Old People Breaking Ageist Paradigms through Portrait Photography 22 3 The Elder-Hostile Giving College Students a Better Start at Life 54 4 Vert-de-Gris Rescuing the Land Lovers 85 5 The Alzheimer’s Defense “Faking Bad” in International Atrocity Trials 112 6 Our Frightened World Fantasies of Euthanasia and Preemptive Suicide 136 7 Induction into the Hall of Shame and the Way Out 163 8 Redress Healing the Self, Relationships, Society 192 A Declaration of Grievances 205 Acknowledgments 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 227 Index 253...
