Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging, Third Edition by Margaret Cruikshank

Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging, Third Edition

Margaret Cruikshank

296 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction self help challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people,...

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