Extraordinary forms of aging life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria
While aging and the life-course appear to be normalized processes, the complex construction of age at the intersection of biology, society, and culture remains opaque. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cas...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag
[2022]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Aging studies ;
Volume 23. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009800233306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Aging Studies amid the Cultural, Social, and Biological
- 1 Theories of Age(ing)
- 1.1 The Beginnings of Social Gerontology: The Biological and the Social
- 1.2 Social and Cultural Impacts on the Aging Process
- 1.3 The Subcategories of Age
- 1.4 Extraordinary Forms of Aging
- 1.5 Extraordinary Age(ing) and Life Writing
- II. Centenarians-The Stars of Aging
- 2 "I feel glorious": The 100th Birthday of Macklemore's Grandmother
- 2.1 New Beginnings: Rereading "Glorious" in Terms of Aging Studies
- 2.2 "I wanna do it all": Extraordinary 'Old' Age and Extraordinary 'Young' Behavior
- 2.3 Centenarianism and the Aging Body in the Realms of a Hip-Hop Video
- 2.4 "Glorious" and the Portrayal of Extraordinary 'Old' Age
- 3 The Normality of Being a Centenarian: A Day in the Life of Aldéa Pellerin-Cormier
- 3.1 Music, Setting, Camera: How the Documentary 'Makes' the Centenarian
- 3.2 Passing on Knowledge: The Centenarian's Wisdom
- 3.3 Femininity, Sex, and Gender in Extraordinary 'Old' Age
- 3.4 Aging, Place, and Questions of Ability: (In)Dependence in Extraordinary 'Old' Age
- 3.5 Aldéa Pellerin-Cormier and the Normality of Centenarianism
- 4 Extraordinary 'Old' Age and (Auto)Biography: George Dawson's Life is So Good! at the Intersection of Age(ing), Race, and Class
- 4.1 Co-Authorship, Vulnerability, and the Art of Age (Auto)biographies
- 4.2 Aging through the Life-Course: The Interconnectedness of Race, Class, and Age
- 4.3 Framing Extraordinary 'Old' Age: The Fabrication of George Dawson
- 4.4 African American Aging Through the Life-Course and the Fabrication of Centenarianism in Life is So Good!
- 5 Representations of Extraordinary 'Old' Age: Same, Same, but Different?
- III. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome-Questioning Assumptions of Age(ing).
- 6 Sensationalizing Disease: "Living with Progeria: Born Different"
- 6.1 Adalia Rose: Progeria between Fragility and Empowerment
- 6.2 The Siblings with Progeria: Michiel and Amber Vandeweert
- 6.3 "Living with Progeria": Illness as Phenomenon
- 7 Sam Berns: Progeria Between Clinical Trials and Lived Experience
- 7.1 Extraordinary Age in Life According to Sam
- 7.2 Progeria and Clinical Trials
- 7.3 A Philosophy for a Happy Life: Sam Berns' TED Talk
- 7.4 Sam Berns as Commodity: Agency and Perspective in Life According to Sam
- 7.5 Framing Extraordinary Age(ing) in Life According to Sam
- 8 Framing Progeria in an (Auto)Biography: Hayley Okines' Old Before My Time
- 8.1 Old Before My Time and Narrative Structure
- 8.2 Intertextual References and Conflicting Narratives: Clinical Trials and Connections to Other Children with Progeria
- 8.3 In Search for the Illness: Hayley's Diagnosis
- 8.4 Hayley Okines and the Construction of Extraordinary Age(ing)
- 8.5 The Progeria Community: Illness and Care as a Common Effort
- 8.6 Old Before My Time and Progeria at the Intersection of the Cultural, Social, and Biological
- 9 Progeria Narratives at the intersection of Age(ing) and Illness
- 10 Conclusion
- Bibliography.
