Growing Up and Growing Old: Ageing and Dependency in the Life Course

by Jenny Hockey, Allison James

Ranging across disciplinary boundaries, this book analyzes metaphors of dependency in differing contexts - the body, the family, work and leisure. Combining a robustly critical analysis with breadth of interdisciplinary sweep, Growing Up and Growing Old challenges the stigmatizing role that stereotypes can play in the lives of particular groups of people.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published April 14, 1993