Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

Non-Fiction: Chapters/Essays/Monographs
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

  • Subtitle – Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life

  • Editors – Adriana Teodorescu, Dan Chiribucă

  • Amanda Barusch’s Contribution – Chapter 3: Cougars and Crones: Maverick Archetypes for Older Women

  • Genre – Sociology, Gerontology

  • Type – Book

  • Publication Date – March 24, 2022

  • Publisher – Routledge

  • Medium – Ebook, Hardback

  • Available at – Amazon

  • Link – https://a.co/d/48EakMa

  • Synopsis – This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged, it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives, as well as theoretical and applied research, this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience, understanding, and response to ageing in the modern world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, particularly sociology, gerontology, demography, social policy, and cultural studies, with interests in ageing and later life.

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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