Ageing, corporeality and embodiment

Gilleard, C. J. (Author). Higgs, Paul. (Added Author).

Summary: This book investigates the emergence of a 'new ageing' and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently - for ageing without becoming old.

Record details

ISBN: 9780857283399 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0857283391 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780857283290
ISBN: 0857283294
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (pages cm.)
Publisher: New York : Anthem Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Identity, embodiment and the somatic turn in the social sciences -- Corporeality, embodiment and the "new ageing" -- Gender, ageing and embodiment -- Age and the racialised body -- Disability, ageing and identity -- Sexuality, ageing and identity -- Sex and ageing -- Cosmetics, clothing and fashionable ageing -- Fitness, exercise and the ageing body -- Ageing and aspirational medicine -- Conclusions ageing, forever embodied -- References -- Index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.