Ending ageism : or, how not to shoot old people / Margaret Morganroth Gullette.

Author
Gullette, Margaret Morganroth [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Description
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Subject(s)
Series
Global perspectives on aging
Summary note
In Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette raises urgent legal, economic, educational, esthetic, and ethical issues to show why anti-ageism should be the next social movement of our time.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Source of description
Print version record.
Language note
In English.
Contents
  • Prologue: fight ageism, not aging: the discovery of trauma
  • #still human: into the glare of the public square
  • How (not) to shoot old people: breaking ageist paradigms through portrait photography
  • The elder-hostile: giving college students a better start at life
  • Vert-de-gris: rescuing the land lovers
  • The Alzheimer's defense: "faking bad" in international atrocity trials
  • Our frightened world: fantasies of euthanasia and preemptive suicide
  • Induction into the hall of shame: when aging serves as the trigger for ageism, shaming is its weapon
  • Redress: overcoming trauma, repairing relationships, healing society
  • Epilogue: a declaration of grievances.
ISBN
  • 9780813589312 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0813589312 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
994006013
Doi
  • 10.36019/9780813589312
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