Foreign Countries of Old Age : : East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging / / ed. by Oana Hergenröther, Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aštalkovska Gajtanoska, Ana,; Božić, Rafaela,; Gramshammer-Hohl, Dagmar,; Gruber, Siegfried,; Hergenröther, Oana,; Ivan, Loredana,; Jakimovska, Ilina,; Jandl, Ingeborg,; Kaser, Karl,; Krasnova, Olga,; Káčerová, Marcela,; Könönen, Maija,; Levinson, Kirill,; Majo, Juraj,; Perišić, Natalija,; Petzer, Tatjana,; Saburova, Tatiana,; Satarić, Nadežda,; Stagl Škaro, Natalia,; Voľanská, Ľubica,
• HerausgeberIn: Gramshammer-Hohl, Dagmar,; Hergenröther, Oana,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Aging Studies ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)

The exploration of what May Sarton calls the »foreign country of old age« usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies has thus far clearly rested upon North America and Western Europe. This multi-disciplinary essay collection critically examines conditions and representat...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Historical Perspectives
• Old Age in the Balkans
• Co-Residence of Elderly Persons with Children and Grandchildren in Eastern and Southeast Europe
• “University Elders,” “Young Professors” and Students
• Changes in Soviet Academia’s Age-Related Personnel Policies during the Cold War
• Qualitative and Quantitative Inquiries
• No Country for Old People
• Meanings of Getting Old in Post-Transition Serbia
• On Nearness and Distance
• The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Family Communication
• The Elderly in Russia
• Literary Representations
• Aging in Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Literature
• Ageless, Vital, Immortal
• Noticing Signs and Stereotypes of Aging
• Does Genre Matter?
• Traumatic Aging in Borisav Stanković and Miloš Crnjanski
• The Dark Past of Family
• The Hag and the Egg
• Commemorating Russia’s Great Old Women
• Contributors