Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment

Name: Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment
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Key Issues in Modern Sociology

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'Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment' outlines and develops an argument about the emergence of a 'new ageing' during the second half of the twentieth century and its realisation through the processes of 'embodiment'. The authors argue that ageing as a unitary social process and agedness as a distinct social location have lost much of their purchase on the social imagination. Instead, this work asserts that later life has become as much a field for 'not becoming old' as of 'old age'. The volume locates the origins of this transformation in the cultural ferment of the 1960s, when new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and the care of the self arose as mass phenomena. Over time, these new forms of embodiment have been extended, changing the traditional relationship between body, age and society by making struggles over the care of the self central to the cultures of later life.

Author Biography:

Chris Gilleard is a visiting research fellow at University College London. Paul Higgs is professor of the sociology of ageing at University College London.

Release date Australia

November 1st, 2014

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Professional & Vocational

Pages

228

Series

Key Issues in Modern Sociology

Dimensions

153x229x26

ISBN-13

9781783083374

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22617017

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