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Aging Studies in Europe

Herausgegeben von Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer

In aging studies, age, like other salient markers of identity, is defined not in terms of being but of doing. One adjusts automatically to the implicit norms of age-appropriate behavior that structure everyday life. In Western culture, these norms install a hierarchical dichotomy between the young and the old - the latter still getting the worst of it.

Heike Hartung, Roberta Maierhofer (Eds.)
Narratives of Life: Mediating Age
Bd. 1, 2009, 208 S., 24.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978-3-8258-1229-4

Aagje Swinnen, John A Stotesbury (Eds.)
Aging, Performance, and Stardom
Doing Age on the Stage of Consumerist Culture
Bd. 2, 2012, 208 S., 24.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978-3-643-90176-7