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This ground-breaking study of the baby boomer generation, who are now entering old age, breaks new ground in ageing research. This post-war cohort has experienced a range of social, cultural, and medical changes in regard to their notions of body, from the introduction of the Pill and the decoupling of sex and procreation to the H-Bomb and Earthrise. Yet, paradoxically, ageing is also universal. This exciting book reflects the intersection of time, ageing, body and identity to give a more nuanced and enlightened understanding of the ageing process.
Price: $127.95
Pages: 224
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date:
01 April 2016
ISBN: 9781447318774
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, Age groups: the elderly / old age, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology, Social welfare, social policy and social services
Dr Naomi Woodspring completed her PhD in 2014 and is now a Research Fellow, University of the West of England as part of the Bristol Ageing Better project. Prior to returning to university as a late life learner, she had her own consulting firm providing sustainable solutions to organisational and community challenges. She also worked as a psychotherapist in a wide variety of settings from managing a community prison project to Native American communities.
Introduction: the curiosity of ageing body, time, and identity;
Kaleidoscopic Sixties;
The appearance of time;
On time;
Body and identity;
The past and present converge;
The future ;
Chiasm, the intersection of time, embodiment, and identity;
Time will tell.