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Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well
Anna I Corwin
Parte de: Global Perspectives on Aging
Resumen/Descripción – provisto por la editorial en inglés
Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream American experiences. In mainstream American society, aging is presented as a “problem,” a state to be avoided as long as possible, a state that threatens one’s ability to maintain independence, autonomy, control over one’s surroundings. Aging “well” (or avoiding aging) has become a twenty-first century American preoccupation. Embracing Age provides a window into the everyday lives of American Catholic nuns who experience longevity and remarkable health and well-being at the end of life. Catholic nuns aren’t only healthier in older age, they are healthier because they practice a culture of acceptance and grace around aging. Embracing Age demonstrates how aging in the convent becomes understood by the nuns to be a natural part of the life course, not one to be feared or avoided. Anna I. Corwin shows readers how Catholic nuns create a cultural community that provides a model for how to grow old, decline, and die that is both embedded in American culture and quite distinct from other American models.Palabras clave – provistas por la editorial
Anthropology; Age Studies; Religion, Women's Studies
Disponibilidad
| Institución detectada | Año de publicación | Navegá | Descargá | Solicitá |
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| No requiere | 2021 | Rutgers University Press |
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Información
Tipo de recurso:
libros
ISBN impreso
978-1-978822-27-6
ISBN electrónico
978-1-978822-31-3
Editor responsable
Rutgers University Press (RUP)
País de edición
Estados Unidos
Fecha de publicación
2021
