Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old

by Meredith Minkler

This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the biomedicalization of aging; the role...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895030756
• ISBN13: 9780895030757
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.