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oapen-20.500.12657-902162024-05-15T06:28:47Z Framing Ageing Langbein, Julia Fuchs, Anne Cosgrove, Mary cultural gerontology gerontology frailty alzheimers dementia aging care home gender sexuality old age thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBJ Literary studies: from c 2000 thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMD Psychology of ageing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology Framing Ageing, available open access, addresses scholars from across the Humanities and Social Sciences who want to approach the urgent topic of old age in their work, mapping the intellectual state of the field and putting the most salient concepts in action. Bringing together established and emerging scholars of old age from the humanities and social sciences as well as gerontologists and medical practitioners, this open access book showcases new scholarship and provides new methods and terms for ongoing conversations about old age as an object of analysis in contemporary culture. Cultural policy makers and scholars alike regularly describe a “visibility crisis” of old age, a consistent erasure or repression of images of older people from public view. Co-edited by an art historian and two literary scholars with a shared interest in memory, Framing Ageing examines the in/visibility of old age from a range of disciplinary angles, including philosophy, social history, comparative literature and anthropology. In addition to examining literary texts, this volume includes a chapter in graphic form and carries out innovative analyses of film, the built environment, fine art and commercial images. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust. 2024-05-14T15:43:59Z 2024-05-14T15:43:59Z 2024 book ONIX_20240514_9781350341425_5 9781350341425 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90216 eng Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International 9781350341425.pdf 9781350341432.epub Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350341449 10.5040/9781350341449 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350341425 Bloomsbury Academic 264 London open access
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Framing Ageing, available open access, addresses scholars from across the Humanities and Social Sciences who want to approach the urgent topic of old age in their work, mapping the intellectual state of the field and putting the most salient concepts in action. Bringing together established and emerging scholars of old age from the humanities and social sciences as well as gerontologists and medical practitioners, this open access book showcases new scholarship and provides new methods and terms for ongoing conversations about old age as an object of analysis in contemporary culture. Cultural policy makers and scholars alike regularly describe a “visibility crisis” of old age, a consistent erasure or repression of images of older people from public view. Co-edited by an art historian and two literary scholars with a shared interest in memory, Framing Ageing examines the in/visibility of old age from a range of disciplinary angles, including philosophy, social history, comparative literature and anthropology. In addition to examining literary texts, this volume includes a chapter in graphic form and carries out innovative analyses of film, the built environment, fine art and commercial images. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
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