Aging as Resistance

Authors

  • Roberta Maierhofer Vice Rector for International Relations and Affirmative Action for Women, Department for American Studies, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/339

Keywords:

Alter, Nordamerika, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Gullette’s cultural studies based analysis Aged by Culture is marked by great personal engagement and motivated by political goals, as are her two previous texts that deal with aging: Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel (1988) and Declining to Decline. Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Middle (1997). Both the urgency as well as the resistance that Gullette, who defines herself as an “age critic,” postulates as a moral and political necessity are addressed in the two parts of the text: “Cultural Urgencies” and “Theorizing Age Resistantly.” Whereas Gullette had already introduced the concept “aged by culture” in Declining to Decline, now she has placed it at the center of her examination. On the one hand, the book is devoted to a sociopolitical analysis of the USA; on the other hand, it develops a theory of resistance to age discrimination.

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Published

2005-07-05

Issue

No. 16 (2005): Alter

Section

Schwerpunkt

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Copyright (c) 2005 Roberta Maierhofer

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