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Midlife geographies : changing lifecourses across generations, spaces and time / Aija Lulle
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Bristol shorts researchPublisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9781529228892
- 1529228891
- 9781529228878
- 305.244 23/eng/20240917
- HQ1059.4
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Front Cover -- Midlife Geographies: Changing Lifecourses across Generations, Spaces and Time -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- one Introduction: Midlife -- Introduction -- Theoretical departure points -- Methodological considerations -- Overview of chapters -- two Ways of Talking about Midlife -- Introduction -- Turning inwards and 'crisis' -- Neoliberal anxieties and humour -- Oversharers, wise future elders and other space-makers -- Conclusion -- three Midlife Transitions: Body and Work -- Introduction
The contingencies of midlife: temporality, generational difference and agency -- Body scale -- Generativity and embodied relations -- Body changes -- Body transitions and the process of ageing -- Taking action, but how? -- Work: spaces and temporalities -- Power and growth -- Laying low -- Deliberate change -- Conclusion -- Four Midlife Transitions: Home and Relationships -- Introduction -- Home -- Young midlife: house ownership -- A gendered move to the city -- Home in late midlife -- Relationships in midlife -- Moving away from a ruptured family -- Extended family ties for migration and return
Conclusion -- Five Geographies of Menopausing -- Introduction -- Inherent contradictions in the medical concept of menopause -- Working across siloes -- Individualized and averaged timing and temporalities -- Intergenerational times of silencing -- Neuroculture and putting women in their place -- Everyday spaces -- National and transnational scales: politics and the economy of menopausing -- Conclusion -- six Conclusions: Policy Focus -- Introduction -- Between youth and ageing geographies -- Transitions and processes: body, work, home and relationships -- Understanding working lives in midlife
Menopausing and gender equality -- References -- Index
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