{"title":"Female Aging: Between Fiction and Real Life","authors":"Maricel Oró","doi":"10.1080/19325610903134488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903134488","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the exponential aging of worldwide population, and despite women still living longer than men, prejudicial negative stereotypes and cultural constructs attached to female aging come to the surface time and again in fiction, mirroring real life. This article aims to analyze three contemporary English novels with elderly female characters as their protagonists contrasting their fictionalized experiences with scientific theories developed around the process of female aging.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115971475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50","authors":"J. Hendricks","doi":"10.1080/19325610903146474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903146474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"136 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120868741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Takahashi, C. Nishimura, Mio Ito, LisaMarie Wands, Tamie Kanata, P. Liehr
{"title":"Health Stories of Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor Survivors","authors":"R. Takahashi, C. Nishimura, Mio Ito, LisaMarie Wands, Tamie Kanata, P. Liehr","doi":"10.1080/19325610903089872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903089872","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines stories of health for five Hiroshima and five Pearl Harbor survivors. The analysis identified story turning points and associated descriptive themes. Turning points for the Hiroshima survivors included: facing disorienting aftermath; becoming Hibakusha (A-bomb sufferers); and, reaching out to create meaning/purpose. For the Pearl Harbor survivors, coming to grips with the reality of a Japanese attack; honoring the memory of their war experiences and trying to set it aside; and, embracing connection. The participants from Japan and the United States had unique context-related experiences of living through the bombings; they also shared common human experiences within and across cultures.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"32 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131539657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrative Chromaticism of Youth and Age in John Updike's Seek My Face","authors":"M. Moreno","doi":"10.1080/19325610903104788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903104788","url":null,"abstract":"The encounter between 79-year-old abstract painter Hope Chafetz and 27-year-old art critic Kathryn D'Angelo in John Updike's Seek My Face (2002/2003) is envisioned as what G. Ephrain Lessing calls a “pregnant moment,” which acquires narrative movement through the constant and evolving interaction between both protagonists. Such interaction gains meaning when explored in the light of abstract painter Hans Hofmann's “push and pull theory.” In the following pages I intend to visualize the women's rapport as the alignment of two lines in a painting moving in different directions as they create a “universe, in motion” (p. 33) within the novel, where old age and youthfulness are part of the same palette of colors.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116863667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Glorious Adventure: by Carter Catlett Williams, Pioneer Network in Cultural Change, Rochester, New York, 2008","authors":"K. Medeiros","doi":"10.1080/19325610903015661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903015661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115064002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Arts and Aging Research: Revealing an Elusive but Promising Direction for the Era of the Third Age","authors":"D. Carr, Chris Wellin, Heather R. Reece","doi":"10.1080/19325610903134496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610903134496","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines arts and aging research over a 40-year period in four highly visible gerontology journals. We examine the content, amount, and distribution of research between 1970 and 2009, identifying dominant themes and research paradigms. Results reveal six themes, with the vast majority of arts research occurring between the late 1980s and early 1990s. Using a critical gerontology lens, we identify and explore the implications of two dominant, often conflicting paradigms that have shaped trends in arts research over the last 40 years. We conclude with recommendations for future arts research for the era of the third age.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127725565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herodotus on Diet and Longevity: How the Persians Fed on Dung and Lived to 80, While the Tall, Handsome Ethiopians Ate Boiled Meat and Lived Beyond 120","authors":"C. Finch","doi":"10.1080/19325610902833247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610902833247","url":null,"abstract":"Herodotus' Histories tell of diet and longevity: the Persians, who ate bread from grain fertilized with dung lived but 80 years, while the tall handsome Ethiopeans ate boiled meat and lived more than 120. These and other ancient texts anticipate current biomedical understanding of aging. However, there little evidence for supracentenarians in the ancient world as noted in Herodotus, Genesis, and other classical texts: only recently have centenarians emerged as a significant age group. Nutrition and hygiene have been major factors in the increasing longevity and of adult height since 1800. It remains possible that some ancient elites achieved modern longevity.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134526033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dads in Topcoats, Waiting for a Bus","authors":"M. Herbert","doi":"10.1080/19325610902914864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610902914864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123407781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kant's Aesthetic Interpretation of a Certain Kind of Late Life Withdrawal","authors":"P. Mckee","doi":"10.1080/19325610802475248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610802475248","url":null,"abstract":"Developmental changes in late life have been studied from many perspectives. Yet rather little inquiry has been made into changes in specifically aesthetic interests and abilities people may experience in old age. This is unfortunate, because aesthetic awareness is both a very important part of life and one which often undergoes change as a function of aging and maturity. This article builds on the aesthetic theory of the enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant to argue that aesthetic theory can contribute to gerontological inquiry by offering hypotheses useful in explaining certain kinds of late life withdrawal, and for suggesting a new domain of empirical inquiry about old age development.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116735989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Are We There Yet?”: Challenging Notions of Age and Aging Through Intergenerational Performance","authors":"D. Thomson","doi":"10.1080/19325610902833254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19325610902833254","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses “Are We There Yet?”, the culminating performance in a 14-week intergenerational workshop exploring issues of age, aging, and the so-called “generation gap.” Participants in the project revised previously-held stereotypes associated with age and aging, coming to view themselves less as “two generations” (under 25 and over 60) and more as both unique individuals and as a unified whole. Problematically, revised stereotypes of old age may have been replaced with unrealistically positive views of aging for the young people involved. Ultimately, the performance served as a reminder to live life fully and in the present.","PeriodicalId":299570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging, Humanities, and The Arts","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115185326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}