Growing Up and Growing Old: Ageing and Dependency in the Life CourseRanging across disciplinary boundaries, this book analyzes metaphors of dependency in differing contexts - the body, the family, work and leisure. Combining a robustly critical analysis with breadth of interdisciplinary sweep, Growing Up and Growing Old challenges the stigmatizing role that stereotypes can play in the lives of particular groups of people. |
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Infantilization as Social Discourse | 9 |
Changing Categories | 45 |
Young at Heart | 73 |
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