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Cruikshank, Margaret Louise was born on April 26, 1940 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of George Patrick and Louise Wimmer Cruikshank.
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Margaret Cruikshank’s Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives to the ways aging is usually understood in both popular culture and mainstream gerontology. Learning to Be Old does not propose the ideas of “successful aging” or “productive aging,” but more the idea of “learning” how to age. Featuring new research and analysis, the third edition of Learning to be Old demonstrates, more thoroughly than the previous editions, that aging is socially constructed. Among texts on aging the book is unique in its clear focus on the differences in aging for women and men, as well as for people in different socioeconomic groups. Cruikshank is able to put aging in a broad context that not only focuses on how aging affects women but men, as well. Key updates in the third edition include changes in the health care system, changes in how long older Americans are working especially given the impact of the recession, and new material on the brain and mind-body interconnections. Cruikshank impressively challenges conventional ideas about aging in this third edition of Learning to be Old. This will be a must-read for everyone interested in new ideas surrounding aging in America today.
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What people said about the first edition of Fierce with Reality: "The richness of this volume mirrors the richness of aging here and around the world. Cruikshank has skillfully woven together glimpses of what it is like to grow old. The uniqueness of this text is its diversity. International perspectives combine with work by a variety of U.S. writers. Cruikshank reclaims the word "old" as an honorable one." Jean K. Quam, Ph.D. Professor and Director, School of Social Work University of Minnesota " . such a sharing of the nonlinear nature of time may liberate people of all ages. Particularly, it may broaden the understanding of those who are privileged to serve the old in their final years. Jean Gould, Editor of Season of Adventure: Traveling Tales and Outdoor Journeys of Women over Fifty "Open to any page and find a gem on aging, about 80 percent by women. Women from diverse cultures and lifestyles. Some names recognizable, some new to writing." Glenda Martin, Minnesota Women's Press About the Editor: Margaret Cruikshank has been teaching and writing about women's issues since 1975. She taught English for many years at City College of San Francisco and now teaches women's studies at the University of Maine and occasionally at the University of Southern Maine. Her book Learning to be Old: gender, culture, and aging, was published in 2003. She lives in Corea, Maine, a small village on the Gouldsboro Peninsula.
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A third edition of this textbook is now available. What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is "successful aging" our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to "grow old gracefully"? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual orientation have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena, yet aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses. The second edition of Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Featuring new research and analysis, expanded sections on gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender aging and critical gerontology, and an updated chapter on feminist gerontology, the second edition even more thoroughly than the first looks at the variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging. Cruikshank pays special attention to the fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes that inform our understanding of age. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.
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Cruikshank, Margaret Louise was born on April 26, 1940 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of George Patrick and Louise Wimmer Cruikshank.
Doctor of Philosophy, Loyola University, 1969; Bachelor, College St. Scholastica, Duluth, 1962; Master of Arts, San Francisco State University, 1992.
Professor City College, San Francisco, 1981-1997. Lecturer University Maine, since 1997. Adjunct professor University Southern Maine, 1999, 2003, 2005.
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(What people said about the first edition of Fierce with R...)
( Margaret Cruikshank’s Learning to Be Old examines w...)
( A third edition of this textbook is now available. Wha...)
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