Framing Ageing

Langbein, Fuchs, and Cosgrove: âIntroductionâ
Desmond OâNeill: âCultural Gerontology at the Intersectionâ
Section I. The Open Body: Resisting Biomedical Old Age
1. Robert Zwinjenberg: âAgeing, Biomedicine and the âRisk of Lifeââ
2. Linda Shortt: â(Un)Fit Ageing: Hermann Kinder and the Ageing Maleâ
3. Aleida Assmann, âOn Wisdomâ
Section II. The Everyday: Locating Complexity in Old Age
4. Wendy Martin: âAgeing, Materiality, and Everyday Lifeâ
5. Anne Fuchs, âGender, the Politics of Looking, and the Narration of Old Age: Elizabeth
Strout's Empathetic Realism in Olive, Againâ
6. Andrew King, âReframing LGBT+ Ageing in Challenging Timesâ
Section III. The Language of Ageing: Critical Reading Across Disciplines
7. Ulla Kriebernegg, âGrowing Old Amid Climate Change: Dystopian Narratives of
Vulnerability and Resistanceâ
8. Gillian Pye, âWell-Being and Happiness in Care Home Narrativesâ
9. Susan Pickard, âGender, Sexuality, and The Double-Standard of Ageing in Later Lifeâ
10. Moise Roche: âRace, Ethnicity, Culture, and Later Life: Problematic Categorisations and
Definitionsâ
Section IV. Intimacy and Experience: Alternative Analyses of Ageing
11. Dana Walrath: âBetween Alice and the Eagle: Dementia Journeys and the Final Breathâ
12. Ailbhe Smith, âUnseen, Unheard, Untouched: A View from the Interiorâ
13. Helen Doherty, âHeard and Seen: Distance and Proximity in Ken Wardropâs Cocooned
(2021)â
Section V. The Social Imaginary: History and the Public Face of Old Age
14. David Troyanski, âJRâs Wrinkles of the Cityâ Project: Representing Global Old Age,
2008-2015â
15. Mary Cosgrove, âThe Meaning of Middle Age in Ter©zia Moraâs Darius-Kopp Trilogyâ
16. Julia Langbein, âBorn Old: The âDiscoveryâ of a Lost Generation of Black American
Artists and their Challenge to Late Styleâ