AGING IDENTITY:A DIALOGUE WITH POSTMODERNISM -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION:POSTMODERNISM AND AGING IDENTITY -- REFERENCES -- PHENOMENOLOGIES OF AGING -CRITICAL REFLECTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ORIGINS OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORIZING -- PHENOMENOLOGY AND AGING -- I. Aging and Biomedicalization -- II. Aging Identity -- BIOGRAPHY AND AGING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- "MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG": A PERSONALACCOUNT OF AGING WITH CEREBRAL PALSY -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY FOCUS ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE? -- MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG…HOW IT ALL STARTED FOR ME -- NOT KNOWING WHEN 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH' -- BEGINNING TO COME TO TERMS WITH AGING -- WHAT NEXT? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE ABSENCE OF ADAM:PROSTATE CANCER AND MALE IDENTITY -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE RISE OF MEDICAL INTERVENTION AND KNOWLEDGEPRODUCTION OF PROSTATE CANCER -- SHIFTING MEANINGS OF 'AGING SEXUALITY' -- 2. EMBODYING AND CONSTRUCTING MALE IDENTITY -- TRANSGRESSING NORMATIVE MASCULINITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SOCIAL IMAGERY, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE:A POSTMODERN ASSESSMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- LIFE COURSE AND IMAGERY -- LIFE COURSE AND HOLISM: PROBLEMS WITH LINEARITY -- POSTMODERNISM AND THE OLD METAPHYSICS -- NEW IMAGERY AND A BETTER HOLISM -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- AGE, SEXUALITY AND THE SPORTING BODY:AN AUTOETHNOGRAPY OF SLIPPING AROUNDAND THROUGH A STATE OF 'BEING HEALTHYWITHOUT FEELING HEALTHY' -- INTRODUCTION -- RUNNING IS GLOBAL FOR WOMEN -- February 2008 -- November 2004 -- CONNECTING THE PERSONAL TO THE CULTURAL:AUTOETHNOGRAPHY -- January 2005 -- THE POST MENOPAUSAL LESBIAN BODY:AN OUT OF DATE COMMODITY? -- June 2005 -- July 2005 -- DIETING REGIMES AS DISTORTING 'NORMAL'TECHNOLOGIES OF THE 'LESBIAN' SELF -- September 2005 -- February 2006 -- October 2008 -- CONCLUSION: FINDING MY OLD, NOMADIC LESBIANBODY IN A 'ZONE OF HIGH TURBULENCE' -- REFERENCES.

'NOT OLD' AND 'OLD':POSTMODERN IDENTITIES IN A NEW LIFESTAGE -- INTRODUCTION -- WEAKNESSES IN THE MODERNIST PARADIGM -- POSTMODERNISM AND IDENTITY -- 'Not Old' as an Overarching Identity -- 'Old' as Identity -- 'Old' as a Right -- Group Identities in Later Life -- Power and Resistance -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES:POSTMODERNISM, PRAGMATISMAND A THIRD WAY? -- INTRODUCTION -- IDENTITY, PRAGMATISM AND POSTMODERNISM -- SLEEP, OLDER MEN AND IDENTITY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CLOTHING, IDENTITY AND THEEMBODIMENT OF AGE -- INTRODUCTION -- CLOTHING AND IDENTITY -- AGE AND IDENTITY -- CLOTHING AND THE BODY -- CONSUMPTION CULTURE AND THERECONFIGURATION OF OLD AGE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- REDEFINING AGING AND IDENTITY:REINVENTION THROUGH EDUCATIONAS A POSTMODERN DYNAMIC -- INTRODUCTION -- REINVENTION -- AGING STUDENT BODY AS A CHALLENGETO HIGHER EDUCATION -- REINVENTION FUELED BY DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGESAND RESULTING PSYCHOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES -- RESTRICTIONS OF THE LANGUAGEOF HIGHER EDUCATION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.