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| Stories of ageing | | Author(s) | Mike Hepworth |
| Publisher | Open University Press, Buckingham, 2000 |
| Pages | 160 pp (Rethinking ageing) |
| Source | Open University Press, Celtic Court, 22 Ballmoor, Buckingham MK18 1XW. |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Fiction. |
| Annotation | The growing interest, within gerontology, in functional representations of older age is examined with reference to novels whose central characters are aged 50 and over. Works ranging from Agatha Christie to Penelope Lively and Joanna Trollope show how the novel can be a useful source of information about the ways in which we make sense of growing old. The author looks at characters' personal experiences of ageing, and the tensions between this and social attitudes towards them. Chapters examine the interaction between the body and the self; the role of relationships between the body, the self and other people; the interdependency of self on objects, and the part played by places and spaces in shaping age identities; and the exposure of older people to danger, and aspects of risk and vulnerability. The final chapter takes up the question of the future of human ageing in relation to the interplay between past, present and future in the life course. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010511212 B |
| Classmark | BG: HKF |
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