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.