Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

Informationen zum Autor Chris Gilleard is a visiting research fellow at University College London. Paul Higgs is professor of the sociology of ageing at University College London.  Klappentext This book investigates the emergence of a 'new ageing' and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently - for ageing without becoming old. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1: Identity, Embodiment and the Somatic Turn in the Social Sciences; Chapter 2: Corporeality, Embodiment and the ‘New Ageing’; Chapter 3: Gender, Ageing and Embodiment; Chapter 4: Age and the Racialised Body; Chapter 5: Disability, Ageing and Identity; Chapter 6: Sexuality, Ageing and Identity; Chapter 7: Sex and Ageing; Chapter 8: Cosmetics, Clothing and Fashionable Ageing; Chapter 9: Fitness, Exercise and the Ageing Body; Chapter 10: Ageing and Aspirational Medicine; Conclusions: Ageing, Forever Embodied; References; Index

Product details

• Authors: Chris Gilleard, Chris Higgs Gilleard, Gilleard Chris, Paul Higgs, Higgs Paul
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2013
• EAN: 9780857283290
• ISBN: 978-0-85728-329-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, Psychology of ageing, Social issues & processes, Age groups: the elderly, Sociology: work & labour, Social and ethical issues, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General