Senior Volunteering in Service to Community Elders in Shanghai: Bringing Together Agendas for Productive Aging and Community-Based Social Support for the Aged in China
In: Ageing international, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 205-235
ISSN: 1936-606X
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In: Ageing international, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 205-235
ISSN: 1936-606X
In: Anthropology & Aging: journal of the Association for Anthropology & Gerontology, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 119-121
ISSN: 2374-2267
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In: Ageing international, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 331-351
ISSN: 1936-606X
In: Anthropology & Aging: journal of the Association for Anthropology & Gerontology, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 27-52
ISSN: 2374-2267
This article examines Chinese discourses on dressing the aging female body as a window into the tensions involved in the historical transformation of habitus in early post-Mao China. Drawing on Chinese media articles and ethnographic interviews conducted with Chinese women in their 40s-60s, the analysis compares depictions of new official ideals for older women's dress that appeared in Chinese government-sponsored feminist media with ordinary older Chinese women's personal sensibilities about dress. Assessing the applicability of dominant western feminist theories of gender, dress, and age, this article provides a historicized culture-specific application of practice theory, examining older women's struggles with competing moral logics associated with past and present, and with official media versus personal experience. Overall, it documents experiences of ambivalence and compromise accompanying lifecycle adjustment in embodiment in the context of rapid social change.
This article examines Chinese discourses on dressing the aging female body as a window into the tensions involved in the historical transformation of habitus in early post-Mao China. Drawing on Chinese media articles and ethnographic interviews conducted with Chinese women in their 40s-60s, the analysis compares depictions of new official ideals for older women's dress that appeared in Chinese government-sponsored feminist media with ordinary older Chinese women's personal sensibilities about dress. Assessing the applicability of dominant western feminist theories of gender, dress, and age, this article provides a historicized culture-specific application of practice theory, examining older women's struggles with competing moral logics associated with past and present, and with official media versus personal experience. Overall, it documents experiences of ambivalence and compromise accompanying lifecycle adjustment in embodiment in the context of rapid social change.
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In: Ageing international, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 361-377
ISSN: 1936-606X
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 52, S. 131-133
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: Ageing international, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 137-141
ISSN: 1936-606X
In: Ageing international, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 366-393
ISSN: 1936-606X
In: Life course, culture and aging: global transformations volume 6
In: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations 1
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions in conjunction with broader sociocultural transformations. Through detailed accounts, in such diverse settings as nursing homes in Sri Lanka, a factory in Massachusetts, cemeteries in Japan and clinics in Mexico, the authors explore not simply our understandings of growing older, but the interweaving of individual maturity and intergenerational relationships, social and economic institutions, and intimate experiences of gender, identity, and the body