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Generativity in cultural context
— the self, death and immortality as experienced by older American women | | Author(s) | Baine B Alexander, Robert L Rubinstein, Marcene Goodman |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 11, part 4, December 1991 |
| Pages | pp 417-442 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Behaviour ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In this paper, the authors argue that generativity must be analysed as a product of American culture and its embeddedness in individualism. Through an analysis of ethnographically based interviews with 161 older women, it is illustrated how generative behaviour is inextricably tied to a constellation of American beliefs about the nature of the self, the meaning of death and attempts to attain immortality that are informed by the ideology of individualism. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-920514007 A |
| Classmark | BD: DM: 7T |
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