Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People (Global Perspectives on Aging)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (620 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N9TQAE7 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The sudden onset of age-related shaming can occur anywhere—the shove in the street, the cold shoulder at the party, the deaf ear at the meeting, the shut-out by the personnel office or the obtuseness of a government. Courtesy of the artist.Related website: (https://brandeis/wsrc/scholars/profiles/gulletteml). As people live longer lives, today’s great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations, beyond the reach of law or public policy. When the term “ageism” was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social Security and Medicare. In Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette confronts the offenders: the ways people aging past midlife are portrayed in the media, by adult offspring; the esthetics and politics of representation in photography, film, and theater; and the incitement to commit suicide for those with early signs
"In her stirring new book, the pioneering US writer Margaret Morganroth Gullette argues that the meaning of the word burden has shifted from referring to the demanding work of care-giving (expressing empathy with the carer) on to the recipient of care. No wonder so many older people worry that they’ll become burdensome, and elder abuse is becoming so common."