Cultures of Ageing and Care
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Herausgegeben von:
Shirley Ann Jordan
This series addresses the pressing contemporary issues of ageing and care as explored in a wide range of genres and forms, and from diverse cultural and disciplinary standpoints. Its publications focus on new articulations of ageing (including, although not confined to, later life) and on new explorations of thought and theory related to the ethics and practices of care. The series welcomes theoretically informed original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as visual, media and film studies and the medical humanities. It fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue about the rapidly expanding fields of cultural gerontology and care theory, inviting publications that focus on either field, or on how the two fields interact. The aim of the series is to provide an international platform for research and scholarly exchange in the humanities that furthers our understanding of the changing cultures and complex experiences of ageing and of care.
Advisory Board
Laura Funk (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Karen Glaser (King’s College London, U.K.)
Susan Ireland (Grinnell College, U.S.A.)
Teppo Kröger (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Sandra Laugier (Université Paris I, France)
Margaret Morganroth Gullette (Brandeis University, U.S.A.)
Andrea Oberhuber (University of Montreal, Canada)
Merel Visse (Drew University and University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht)
Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern
Shirley Jordan, Newcastle University, UK; Norah Keating, University of Alberta, Canada; Siobhán McIlvanney, King’s College London, UK.
Care is fundamental to human survival, yet it is often overlooked, undermined, undervalued, and thought of as ‘women’s work’. Care of the old is particularly low in status and is too readily occluded. This volume asks why and how cultures of care for older people are negatively configured. It examines some of the powerful responses to relationships of intergenerational care in recent creative works by women. It thereby contributes to the contemporary imperative to transform care by investigating some of the ways in which care might be redefined and reconceptualized. Taking as its focus the representation or narrativization of care in theory, literature, visual culture, and performance, it engages with contemporary female-authored works from diverse cultural contexts, encouraging the development of comparative, cross-cultural perspectives. Narrative is key here, for it is in stories about ageing and care that the complexities and ambiguities of care relationships are made available, and that simplified ideas about them are challenged. This volume will be of interest to scholars in literary and cultural studies, gender studies, critical age studies, the medical and health humanities, and all who are interested in care.
