Contributor
Gubrium, Jaber F.
Imprint:Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.
Descriptionxiii, 483 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:The cultural trap: the language of images / Haim Hazan - The personal trap: the language of self-presentation / Haim Hazan - Further Thoughts on the Theory of Disengagement / Elaine Cumming - A current theoretical issue in social gerontology / Arnold M. Rose - A continuity theory of normal aging / Robert C. Atchley - A decade of reminders: changing age consciousness between fifty and sixty years old / David A. Karp - Identity foreclosure: women's experiences of widowhood as expressed in autobiographical accounts / Deborah Kestin Van Den Hoonard - The ageless self / Sharon R. Kaufman - Retirement as a social role / Robert C. Atchley - The unbearable lightness of retirement: ritual and support in a modern life passage / Joel Savishinsky - "One of your better low-class hotels" / Joyce Stephens - "Making it" / Joyce Stephens - Friendship styles / Sarah H. Matthews - The significance of work friends in late life / Doris Francis - Filial obligations and kin support for elderly people / Janet Finch, Jennifer Mason - Parental dependence and filial responsibility in the 19th century: Hial Hawley and Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1884-1885 / Emily K. Abel - An old age community / Arlie Russell Hochschild - Resisting institutionalization: constructing old age and negotiating home / Pia C. Kontos - Managing aging in young adulthood: the "aging" table dancer / Carol Rambo Ronai - Narratives of the gendered body in popular autobiography / Mary M. Gergen, Kenneth J. Gergen - Stigmatizing a "normal" condition: urinary incontinence in late life / Linda S. Mitteness, Judith C. Barker - Geriatric ideology: the myth of the myth of senility / James S. Goodwin - Bringing the social back in: a critique of the biomedicalization of dementia / Karen A. Lyman - The mask of dementia: images of "demented residents" in a nursing ward / Hava Golander, Aviad E. Raz - The dependent elderly, home health care, and strategies of household adaptation / Steven M. Albert - The unencumbered child: family reputations and responsibilities in the care of relatives with Alzheimer's Disease / Judith Globerman - Nursing homes as trouble / Timothy Diamond - A death in due time: conviction, order, and continuity in ritual drama / Barbara Myerhoff - Death in very old age: a personal journey of caregiving / Betty Risteen Hasselkus - The social context of grief among adult daughters who have lost a parent / Jennifer Klapper, Sidney Moss, Miriam Moss, Robert L. Rubinstein.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
