Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781836390916ISBN-10:1836390912UPC:9781836390916Book Category:History, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Social History, Developmental, GerontologyBook Topic:Adulthood & AgingSize:8.74 x 5.88 x 1.02 inchesWeight:1.02Product ID:SC7Z2RC383
A life-affirming exploration of the rich emotional lives of the elderly across thousands of years of human history. Winter Dreams is an evocative history of the ways the old have thought, felt, and expressed themselves over two millennia, tracking the experience of aging through artistic, literary, and historical records. While old age is often depicted as "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything," Barbara H. Rosenwein shows that the elderly have always retained their emotional depth and desires. She explores how these have changed over time, as societies' views of the elderly and a "good" old age have changed. Through careful critique of these texts, she allows the elderly, so often absent from the historical record, to speak to us. We live in a rapidly aging society, yet ageism is rampant and death and dying are taboo subjects. Rosenwein's book is a finely wrought testimony to the value of aging and the richness of our "winter dreams."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781836390916ISBN-10:1836390912UPC:9781836390916Book Category:History, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Social History, Developmental, GerontologyBook Topic:Adulthood & AgingSize:8.74 x 5.88 x 1.02 inchesWeight:1.02Product ID:SC7Z2RC383
Barbara H. Rosenwein is a pioneering historian whose books explore the many ways in which different groups have experienced, valued, and expressed emotions over time. She is professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago.
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