Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions

by Kathleen Woodward

Book Overview

Provides an analysis of the effect of negative cultural representations on our ideas about getting old. This title argues that in the West ageism, like sexism and racism, is rooted in physical differences and in discrepancies in social power.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253366402
• ISBN13: 9780253366405
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.