The body, gender, and age: Feminist insights in social gerontology
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Drawing on insights from feminist gerontology, the article discusses the ways in which body, gender, and age intersect, arguing for the importance of recognizing the centrality of the body in aging, but the need to recognize that this body is socially and culturally constituted. It explores this through three areas: the role of the body in the subjective experience of aging and the problems and paradoxes of cultural resistance; the significance of the bodily in deep old age and subjective experience of receiving personal care; and the gendered nature of carework as a
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تاریخ انتشار 2004