From life storytelling to age autobiography

Journal of Aging Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-111

  Morganroth Gullette, Margaret ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult development; Age autobiography; Age consciousness (redefined); Age critic; Age identity; Age studies; Autobiogrphy theory; Being aged by culture; Change; Cultural criticism through age autobiography; Decline narrative; Identity theory; Master narratives of the life course; Multiple selves (diachronic); Progress narrative; Selfhood as a narrative; Socialization into aging; The American dream as a life course narrative; The embodied psyche in culture over time; The life course imaginaries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LITERATURE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037317590     PISSN: 08904065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-4065(02)00093-2     Document Type: Article

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