“Polyester Pants and Orthopedic Shoes”: Introducing Age Studies to Traditional-Aged Undergraduates
This article describes several in-class exercises that can be used to introduce basic age studies concepts to students within one…
Age, Culture, Humanities transferred from the Athenaeum Press of Coastal Carolina University to the Royal Danish Library in Spring 2022. Please, visit the journal's new website https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/. The old website remains functional for the time being but will not be updated nor will it be open for submissions.
This article describes several in-class exercises that can be used to introduce basic age studies concepts to students within one…
Visions of Aging: Images of the Elderly in Film. Amir Cohen-Shalev. Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2012. Pp. 140. $66.60 (hardcover)…
A new journal stressing the investigation of age and aging through the humanities and the arts can only be welcomed,…
Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English Literature from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear. Christopher Martin. Amherst: University of Massachusetts…
Michael Haneke’s Amour received an exceptional degree of adulation for a film in which a husband smothers his frail, helpless…
*Winner: Graduate Student Essay Contest 2013* In view of Judith Butler’s assertion that identity as an effect is generated by…
It is almost forty-five years since Simone de Beauvoir published her weighty book on old age, La Vieillesse (1970). An extraordinary…
Eve Escapes: Ruins and Life. Hélène Cixous. Trans. Peggy Kamuf. Cambridge UK and Malden, MA: Polity, 2012. Pp. 208. $59.95…
Thornton Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner (1931) holds a unique place in American drama, as it covers ninety years in…
The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain by Kay Heath. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 247. $75.00…