Loving Later Life : An Ethics of Aging 9781467442947, 9780802872166

Is loving later life possible? In our youth-obsessed culture, nobody enjoys growing old. We normally fear our own aging

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Loving Later Life : An Ethics of Aging
9781467442947, 9780802872166

Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizen hold for society. In her cultural-philoso

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What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experi

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Turning 50 is often a line in the sand for women. On one side is youth, on the other is the decline into old age. But th

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This factsheet provides information about later life for transgender (or trans) people. The main focus is on growing old

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The act of interrogation, and the debate over its use, pervades our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in

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Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in

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When Jennifer moves alone into the Honey Factory on a tiny Greek island, bringing a laptop, her hiking boots and plans f

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This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's

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The fields of aging, fitness, and nutrition are full of misinformation, myths, and outdated science. This book addresses

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