Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Age. Reader: Inspiring Old Age—Body and Mind on the Fringes of Social Norms. Tereza Teklic, Sunica Ostoic,…
As the editorial team worked toward the initial launch of Age Culture Humanities, colleagues in age and aging studies and…
The links between old age and disability might seem obvious at first. When we look at the iconic white stick…
In January 2014, I presented this talk as part of a panel on “Age and/as Disability” at the Modern Language…
The question of what people identified as “old” and those considered “disabled” have in common has been asked many times….
As a feminist disability studies scholar working on issues of accessible and inclusive design, my participation in the Critical Health,…
“I find myself increasingly focused on this issue of frailty,” writes Joan Didion in her memoir Blue Nights, published in…
Introduction How people understand age and aging depends on their culture’s age ideology (Gullette 11). Learning consciously and unconsciously about…
Introduction With its roots in education, children’s literature is an ideological discourse that relies on age for its definition and…
This article1 draws on the curious coincidence of several film releases of the “Snow White” tale in 2012. The Internet…