LEADER 00000cam a2200745Ki 4500 001 ocn987792616 003 OCoLC 005 20180413100735.9 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 170523s2017 nju ob 001 0 eng d 020 9780813585369|q(electronic book) 020 0813585368|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780813585345 020 |z0813585341 020 |z9780813585338 020 |z0813585333 020 |z9780813585352|q(e-book (epub) 035 (OCoLC)987792616 037 22573/ctt1q0fc4f|bJSTOR 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dYDX|dP@U|dEBLCP|dJSTOR|dOTZ 049 RIDW 050 4 HQ1061|b.S8449 2017eb 072 7 SOC|x031000|2bisacsh 072 7 SOC|x020000|2bisacsh 072 7 MED032000|2bisacsh 072 7 HEA010000|2bisacsh 072 7 SEL005000|2bisacsh 072 7 SOC013000|2bisacsh 072 7 SOC057000|2bisacsh 072 7 FAM005000|2bisacsh 082 04 305.26|223 090 HQ1061|b.S8449 2017eb 245 00 Successful aging as a contemporary obsession :|bglobal perspectives /|cedited by Sarah Lamb. 264 1 New Brunswick :|bRutgers University Press,|c[2017] 300 1 online resource. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 0 Global perspectives on aging 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Series Page ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Successful Aging as a Twenty-first-Century Obsession; Part I: Gender, Sexuality, and the Allure of Anti-Aging; Chapter 1: Successful Aging, Ageism, and the Maintenance of Age and Gender Relations; Chapter 2: Opting In or Opting Out? North American Women Share Strategies for Aging Successfully with (and without) Cosmetic Intervention; Chapter 3: Aging Out: Ageism, Heterosexism, and Racism among Aging African American Lesbians and Gay Men; Chapter 4: Erectile Dysfunction as Successful Aging in Mexico 505 8 Part II: Ideals of Independence, Interdependence, and Intimate Sociality in Later LifeChapter 5: Beyond Independence: Older Chicagoans Living Valued Lives; Chapter 6: Growing Old with God: An Alternative Vision of Successful Aging among Catholic Nuns; Chapter 7: Aspiring to Activity: Universities of the Third Age, Gardening, and Other Forms of Living in Postsocialist Poland; Chapter 8: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? Friendship in the Face of Dementia; Part III: National Policies and Everyday Practices: Individual and Collective Projects of Aging Well 505 8 Chapter 9: Getting Old and Keeping Going: The Motivation Technologies of Active Aging in DenmarkChapter 10: Foolish Vitality: Humor, Risk, and Success in Japan; Chapter 11: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing; Chapter 12: Depreciating Age, Disintegrating Ties: On Being Old in a Century of Declining Elderhood in Kenya; Part IV: Medicine, Morality, and Self: Lessons from Life's Ends; Chapter 13: Successful Selves? Heroic Tales of Alzheimer's Disease and Personhood in Brazil; Chapter 14: Comfortable Aging: Lessons for Living from Eighty-five and Beyond 505 8 Chapter 15: Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? Aspirations of Aging and Dying in the United States and IndiaEpilogue: Successful Aging and Desired Interdependence; Notes on Contributors; Index 520 Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession exposes and complicates contemporary readings of successful aging, questioning and defamiliarizing Western visions of the place of old age in the life course. This volume brings fresh insight and international perspectives that expand our collective imagination about what it is to age, and, by extension, to live. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Aging|xSocial aspects|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh2007100675|vCross-cultural studies.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001526 650 0 Older people|vCross-cultural studies.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85002093 650 7 Aging|xSocial aspects.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast /800348 650 7 Older people.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1199093 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Cross-cultural studies.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1423769 700 1 Lamb, Sarah,|d1960-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n99837559|eeditor. 776 08 |iPrint version:|tSuccessful aging as a contemporary obsession.|dNew Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]|z9780813585345|w(DLC) 2016033721|w(OCoLC)959034488 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=1455673|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this eBook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20180419|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW 3-16to4-19 |lridw 994 92|bRID