Foreign Countries of Old Age : : East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging / / ed. by Oana Hergenröther, Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Aging Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
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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