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Vrajová, Jana. "Proměna literární reprezentace stáří skrze postavu staré ženy v povídkové tvorbě autorů 80. a 90. let 19. století." Slavica Wratislaviensia 163 (March 17, 2017): 499–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.163.42.
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Forms of literary representation of age through changes in characters of old women in Czech short stories of 80s and 90s of the 19th centuryThe study deals with different representations of the character of old women in Czech literature of the second half of the nineteenth century. It focuses mainly on three short stories which show exceptof the literary image of old age also the proof of the vertical stratification of Czech literature of the end of the nineteenth century. The study also shows the literary controversy related to literary movements and intertextual relations. The latest short story which the study refers to is called Babiččin pohřeb and was written by Rudolf Karel Zahrádka. It has a specific position in the context of thinking about the use of motifs associated with old age: not only could it be characterized as a subversive text due to the intertextual passages referring to Babička by Božena Němcová, but it can be also identified as a proof of the penetration of the modernistic tendency in Czech literature.Obrazy literackich reprezentacji starości na podstawie postaci starej kobiety w opowiadaniach autorów z lat 80. i 90. XIX wiekuArtykuł dotyczy sposobu reprezentacji postaci starej kobiety w literaturze czeskiej drugiej połowy XIX wieku. Autorka skupia swoją uwagę zwłaszcza na opowiadaniach, które, oprócz literackiego obrazu starości, są również wertykalną stratyfikacją czeskiej literatury końca XIX wieku, jej wewnętrznych dyskursywnych polemik i związków intertekstualnych. Jako najbardziej interesujące jawi się opowiadanie Rudolfa Karla Zahálki Babiččin pohřeb, które można, biorąc pod uwagę związki intertekstualne, oznaczyć za tekst subwersyjny i pokazać na jego podstawie przenikanie do literatury czeskiej tendencji naturalistycznych.
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Covey, Herbert C. "A Return to Infancy: Old Age and the Second Childhood in History." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 36, no. 2 (March 1993): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/3fny-20em-7l4y-5fgm.
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Throughout Western history scholars and writers have characterized old age as a period of a second childhood and childish behavior. The second childhood stereotype has endured and finds expression in numerous works of literature, in a variety of historical contexts including ancient through contemporary times. Explanations for this stereotype were linked to the humoral theory of aging, the perceived and actual dependency of older people for care, dementia, and other ties between childhood and old age. The second childhood was also interpreted as a stage of life where the lifecycle returned to its beginning. The stereotype, while predominantly viewed as negative, may also be viewed in a positive light and underscores the duality and ambiguity that characterized the way older people have been viewed in Western history. The stereotype, while enduring, may have been more prevalent during certain periods, such as those periods when older people were devalued. Cultural representations and more importantly interpretations have also varied within historical context.
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Miquel-Baldellou, Marta. "From pathology to invisibility: age identity as a cultural construct in vampire fiction." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 27 (November 15, 2014): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2014.27.08.
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A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era up to the contemporary period underlines a clear evolution that seems particularly relevant from the perspective of ageing studies. One of the permanent features characterising the fictional vampire from its origins to its current manifestations in literature is precisely the vampire’s disaffection with the effects of ageing in spite of its old chronological age. Nonetheless, even though the vampire’s appearance does not age, the way it has been presented in literature has significantly evolved from a remarkable aged look during the Victorian period in John Polidori’s “The Vampyre: A Tale” (1819), Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) or Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) to young adulthood in Anne Rice’s An Interview with the Vampire (1976) and Charlaine Harris’ Dead Until Dark (2001), adolescence in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005-2008), and even childhood in John Ajvide Lindquist’s Let the Right One In (2004), thus underlining a significant process of rejuvenation through time despite the vampire’s apparent disaffection with the effects of ageing. This article shows how the representations of the vampire in literature reflect a shift from the embodiment of pathology to the invisibility, or the denial, of old age and how this, in turn, reflects cultural conceptualisations and perceptions of ageing.
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Nelson, Camilla. "Miss Havisham’s Rage: Imagining the ‘Angry Woman’ in Adaptations of Dickens’ Famous Character." Adaptation 13, no. 2 (November 27, 2019): 224–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apz027.
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Abstract Miss Havisham is a spectral spinster figure that haunts the western imagination, an emblem of an ostensibly ‘unjustified’ and ‘unjustifiable’ female rage, a repository for masculine fears and fantasies about women, age, sexuality, and power. This article examines the shifting visions of Miss Havisham as an object of horror in film, fashion, kitsch, on the internet, and, more recently, as a revisionary figure of female resistance in Tony Jordan’s television series, Dickensian. In so doing, it maps the tensions that exist between conventional representations of Miss Havisham that envisage her as an irrational, embittered, and narcissistic old woman and those that construct her as a representation of justified female rage against the intersecting forces of patriarchy, capitalism, and ‘toxic masculinity’.
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Waller, Alison. "Floating Minds: How Young Adult Fiction Represents Forgetting in Old Age and Adolescence." International Research in Children's Literature 14, no. 3 (October 2021): 283–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0411.
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YA novels increasingly tell stories about memory loss, from adolescent amnesia to cognitive decline in older age. This article examines the representation of forgetting in Jenny Downham's Unbecoming, Clare Furniss's How Not to Disappear, and Emily Barr's The One Memory of Flora Banks. Drawing on liberatory psychology, queer phenomenology, and theories of creative embodiment, it argues that dominant narratives of dementia and ageing might be challenged by analysing symbolic scenes of floating and falling.
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Martin, A. "Old Age and the Other-Within: Beauvoir's Representation of Ageing in La vieillesse." Forum for Modern Language Studies 47, no. 2 (January 31, 2011): 126–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqq079.
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Ben Hafsa, Lanouar. "Overcoming the “Other’s” Stigma: Arab and Muslim Representations in US Media and Academia." International Journal of Social Science Studies 7, no. 5 (August 13, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v7i5.4446.
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The present work focuses on Arab and Muslim representations in U.S. media and academia. It suggests to offer an overview of the collective and often stereotyped image of such categories amidst shifting ideological and political contexts. While it rests upon deep investigation of the literature underlying Orientalist discourse, it by no means aims to delve into the controversy purporting to the core tenets of such an age-old trend tackled extensively by renowned scholars like Edward Said and Jack Shaheen. Rather, it endeavors to contribute novel insights into the way Arabs and Muslims are depicted and perceived in the United states, by deconstructing certain Orientalist binary frames to demonstrate, ultimately, how both spheres of influence (media and academia) mimic the same political language and work in conjunction to propagate a Eurocentric culture. The study, eventually, adopts a quantitative approach based on the analysis of literature contents using statistical data to justify and substantiate discussed arguments. It, regrettably, does not cover all American media outlets due to the immensely broad scope of the addressed matter.
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Wigger, Iris, and Spencer Hadley. "Angelo Soliman: desecrated bodies and the spectre of Enlightenment racism." Race & Class 62, no. 2 (August 3, 2020): 80–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306396820942470.
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The case of Angelo Soliman − a black man raised in the royal courts of eighteenth-century Vienna who appeared during his lifetime to have attained significant social status and acceptance into bourgeois society, only to have his body stuffed and exhibited after death in a natural history museum − is discussed in the context of Enlightenment race theories at the core of a then-new ‘scientific racism’. This article explores his representation in its wider discursive and historical context, and critically reflects on predominant narratives and typologies associated with him. The piece then reflects on contemporary attempts to retell his story – via museum exhibitions, literature and film – some of which started to critically reflect on age-old European stereotypes of blackness used in earlier representations of Soliman. The piece promotes a discussion of Soliman’s life from a more critical, historically reflexive, de-colonialising and anti-racist position that questions white normativity and the scientific racism of the European Enlightenment and colonialism, the foundations of modern racism.
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Barois, Christèle. "Stretching Out Life, Maintaining the Body: Part I - Vayas in Medical Literature." History of Science in South Asia 5, no. 2 (December 31, 2017): 37–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.18732/hssa.v5i2.31.
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The representation of the process of human life is at the heart of questions about longevity, rejuvenation practices and possibly those which aim at immortality. The key term for “age” in medieval India is vayas, which means “vigour”, “youth” or even “any period of life”, that is to say exactly the same meaning as ours (duration of life). As a criterion for the examination of the patient, vayas is invariably divided into three periods: childhood, intermediate age and old age, precisely defined in the ayurvedic saṃhitās. It seems that vayas might be a relevant gateway to the cross-disciplinary understandings of age in medieval India, and therefore to the conditions of its (relative) mastery.
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Akhatov, Al'bert Tagirovich. "Old Ivanovskoe cemetery of Ufa: historical-archaeological research." Genesis: исторические исследования, no. 12 (December 2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-868x.2020.12.34548.
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The subject of this article is the Old Ivanovskoe cemetery that existed in the territory of Ufa. The goal consists in examination of the key stages in development of this necropolis since the moment was sketched in the city plan in 1819 until its complete destruction in the 1950s. Special attention is given to localization of this burial ground in Ufa town planning patter in accordance with the data of cartographic materials of the XIX – middle of the XX centuries, and history of its archaeological research conducted in 1990 and 2002. The novelty of this work consists in introduction into the scientific discourse of new archival documents, systematization of cartographic and published materials on the history of Old Ivanovskoe cemetery, as well as Ioanno-Predtechensky Cathedral that functioned on its territory. Analysis of the existing sources and literature allow concluding that the history of necropolis prior to the Revolution of 1917 was closely related to the development of spatial structure of Ufa, while after the Revolution – with the sociopolitical processes that unfolded throughout the country. Thanks to archaeological research, Old Ivanovskoye cemetery, even after its destruction, elaborates representations on the material and spiritual culture, anthropological and paleopathological characteristics of the Ufa population in the past. Therefore, the author raises the question on the need to publish the materials acquired during the excavations in full, and preserve necropolis as the object of archaeological heritage of the Late Middle Ages and Modern Age.
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Lis-Wielgosz, Izabela. "Apoteoza starości. Funkcjonalność motywu w średniowiecznej literaturze serbskiej." Slavica Wratislaviensia 163 (March 17, 2017): 677–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.163.57.
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An apotheosis of old age.The motif’s functionality in the medieval Serbian literatureIn the paper, atheme of the old age is undertaken in order to present it as abroad plane of meanings, representing forms and imaginative constructions, which, inscribed in the concrete context that is, the realm of the medieval culture and literature of Serbia, establishes aspecific point of departure for considerations on the perception of the human age from the historical, ideological, theological perspective, etc. The principal problem of the reflection is aproblem regarding the form and function of the old age motif, its permanence and changeability in the sphere of the phenomenon’s examination, perceiving determined by many factors concerning above all the civilization type of culture, sum of its historical experiences, and the social integration level resulted from the whole of the general public and its world view comportments. There are many cultural and literary examples of realization and functionality of the old age motif in the medieval era, accompanied by their basic monographs, however, they mainly refer to the Latin, West Christian circle. In this accurate context, the output of the Eastern Christian world together with the Old Church Slavonic domain is rarely invoked and disputed. Undertaking the problems conjoined with the old age, it is therefore worth using the old writing of the Old Church Slavs, of which part is the Old Serbian literature. This literature may be interpreted as the motif’s representation, its widely usage and significant illustration.Апотеоза старости. Функционалност мотивау средњовековној српској књижевностиУ реферату се представља тема старости на примеру средњовековне српске књижевности. На темељу изабраних текстова, углавном житијних, указује се мотив позних година, његова адаптација, реализација и функција у књижевном и идејном простору. Овај мотив разматра се пре свега у односу на библијску традицију, али такође он се овде анализира у широм културном аспекту. Дакле, у раду пропитује се начин функционисања мотива, објашњава се његово присуство у конкретним књижевним сценама – у казивању о смрти или опису јуначког одласка у монашки живот. Преглед неких од најчешћих икарактеристичних остварења теме старости у српским кнјижевним текстовима средњега века, доноси закључак да се она појављује као разнолика и чврсто повезана са многим другим културним топосима, да је она снажно обележена библијским узором, и коначно да укњижевности њено присуство и реализација су одраз једног, у великој мери позитивног/апотеозног, менталног става средњовековног – религиозног човека према људској судбини у овом и оном свету.
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Hoshko, T. "REPRESENTATION OF THE OLD AGE IN THE TOWNS OF THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN TIMES." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 136 (2018): 18–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2018.136.1.04.
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From ancient times, philosophical treatises divided human life into separate periods. The most extreme of them were childhood and old age. If the first of these stages is relatively well represented both in legal literature and documentary sources, the second one is paid much less attention. There was no clear dating of the beginning of old age. The attitude towards older people was ambivalent, which was dictated by both Christian views and the practice of life. These views were widespread in the towns of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th centuries. The town law to some extent protected older people, but in most cases, they did not act as subjects of law. The important groups of sources for the history of old age are the codes of law and burghers’ testaments.
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Fallon, David. "‘Can you say I am an old man?’: Sentiment and the Mask of Ageing in Thomas Holcroft's Duplicity (1781)." Romanticism 25, no. 3 (October 2019): 237–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0429.
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This article examines how in its representation of old age Thomas Holcroft's play Duplicity (1781) registers the impact of concerns over the welfare of his own ageing father as well as the influence of French sentimental comedy. Via a comparison with the rough comedy directed at the character of Solomon Flint in Samuel Foote's The Maid of Bath (1778), the article shows Holcroft's more sympathetic comic treatment of his elderly character Vandervelt. The play represents a progressive shift, associated with the influence of sentimentalism, in the representation of the old man, and anticipates some of the ways in which Romantic writers paid greater attention to questions of interior experience in relation to ageing. The article notes, however, a residual use of the old man as a personification when it comes to national identity, but one orientated towards a pacific resolution of Anglo-Dutch rivalry.
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CASADO-GUAL, NÚRIA. "Unexpected turns in lifelong sentimental journeys: redefining love, memory and old age through Alice Munro's ‘The Bear Came Over the Mountain’ and its film adaptation, Away from Her." Ageing and Society 35, no. 2 (November 18, 2013): 389–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x13000780.
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ABSTRACTAlice Munro's 2001 short story ‘The Bear Came Over the Mountain’ and its 2006 film version, Away from Her, directed and adapted for the screen by Sarah Polley, are two interconnected narratives through which diverse (and even divergent) representations of romantic love and memory in later life can be analysed. Even if the two texts are constructed on an apparently simple plot line, which basically depicts the last phase of a 44-year-long marriage once the wife, Fiona, presents symptoms of dementia and is interned in a retirement home, they both allow for, at least, two contrasted interpretations. As will be demonstrated, these two possible readings unveil different cultural, social and psychological facets of memory in connection with late-life expressions of love; and each of them contributes, in their own way, to the construction of a dialogical narrative that mediates between the complexities of old age, dementia and gender difference, while at the same time demonstrating the power of literature and the cinema to reflect and refract the complexities of contemporary forms of ageing.
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Milivojević, Tatjana, Ljiljana Manić, and Nataša Simeunović Bajić. "Double discrimination of elderly women in the media." Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook 19, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nl_00026_1.
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The topic of this article is the phenomenon of double, namely cross or additive discrimination against senior women in the media sphere. Many studies and articles are devoted to ageism, discrimination against the elderly and gender inequality as discrimination against women. Rarely and hardly ever in Serbia, research is focused on the topic of gender differences that determine the quality of life in old age. While some believe that gender inequality and stereotypes end with age, which is in itself a basis for discrimination, and that gender differences are equalized, others believe that gender differences are particularly pronounced in old age, especially when considering marginalized elderly populations such as elderly people belonging to the Roma nationality, people with disabilities, LGBT people and HIV-positive people. This article is a comprehensive literature review article. The authors applied theoretical and interpretative methods of research, discursive and critical thematic analysis. The interpretative method is based on the meanings and representation of different aspects of the issue. The main finding of this article is the existence and prevalence of a gap and contradiction between the reality of longer and better quality of life and outdated media representation of old age, especially of elderly women.
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Santos, Álvaro da Silva, Araceli Albino, Vitória de Ávila Santos, Gabriela Souza Granero, Maria Teresa Mendonça de Barros, and Marta Regina Farinelli. "Approaches of psychoanalysis in the care of the elderly: an integrative review." Revista Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia 21, no. 6 (December 2018): 767–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981-22562018021.180149.
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Abstract Objective: to map publications about the clinical psychoanalytical care of the elderly and describe their characteristics. Method: an integrative review was carried out, considering the period 2008 to 2017 using the following databases: Index-Psychology, LILACS, MedLine, PubMED, SciELO and RedALyC, irrespective of language. The terms Elderly (Idoso), Aging (Envelhecimento) and Psychoanalysis (Psicanálise) were used. The guiding question was: what scientific literature exists about the elderly and psychoanalytical clinical care? A total of 33 articles were considered. Results: five categories were constructed: "Elderly clinical care with a psychoanalytical approach" (15), "Psychoanalytical Approaches in old age” (9), "Psychoanalytical Interventions in long-term care facilities" (6), "Representations of old age for health professionals in the light of psychoanalysis" (2) and "Generationality and psyche" (1). The concern of psychoanalysis for the elderly is incipient and precedes epistemological issues, meaning that production regarding clinical practice is greater; in turn, there are fewer research studies, as most of the articles are reflective in nature. Conclusion: the published studies indicate the possibility of employing psychoanalysis with the elderly, as the unconscious does not age and symptoms are continuously updated. The timidity of psychoanalysis in contrast to the increase in the numbers of elderly persons may be criticized. It is also emphasized that the losses, the effects on the body and the reduction of social ties require adjustments in clinical care, such as the inclusion of group activities and activities beyond the analytical setting, especially hospitals, homes and LTCFs.
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Siwicka, Małgorzata. "Starość – szansa czy zagrożenie dla rozwoju moralnego człowieka w ocenie stoików." Vox Patrum 56 (December 15, 2011): 147–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.4213.
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The old age in the ancient culture of Greece and Rome, in contrast to popular opinion, appears not to be held in high esteem by everyone. This observation can be illustrated by a lot of sources in the Greek and Roman literature. The old age has been considered as difficult and troublesome both for persons, whose were afflicted by this age, and for their family, friends and all attendants. This period of human life has been exposed to illness and the other afflictions – weakness of body and mind, less intense clarity and precision of thought. Consequently, the old people would take active part in the social and political life only in this case, when they were in good health, in good physical and mental condition. Because of this in Greek and Roman literature can be found a lot of lamentations and complaints of the old age. Only Plato and representatives of new stoic school – Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius formulated opposite theories about the old age. According to Stoics’ perceiving of the world and the time and cyclical changes of them, the man’s nature and condition from his birth directs inevitably to his death. The whole world is ruled by God and nothing in it happens without his will. So the good and wise man will accept everything, as well the old age, and all its disadvantages. This acceptance off all that happens will bring man peace of mind and protection against whatever he may suffer. The old age – for a lover of wisdom is an occasion to develop and grow up his moral virtues and to improve his character. This intellectual and ethical process issues from human reason, which is a part of divine reason, pervasive all things in the world and all men. The Stoics warn against a danger of a moral decline and in the old age. This corruption would be caused by direction of man’s attention to the shortness of life instead of the improving his character. The number of years of human life appears not to be important for Stoics. They condemn an aim for long life, if it not connected with an aspiration for wisdom.
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Hamer, Naomi. "The hybrid exhibits of the story museum: The child as creative artist and the limits to hands-on participation." Museum and Society 17, no. 3 (November 29, 2019): 390–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v17i3.3256.
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Since the Brooklyn Children’s Museum opened in 1899, the concept of the children’s museum has evolved internationally as a non-profit public institution focused on informal family-centred education and interactive play environments (Acosta 2000; Allen 2004). The majority of these museums highlight science education; however, over the past decade, a new specialized institution has emerged in the form of the children’s story museum that concentrates on children’s literature, storytelling, and picture book illustration. These story museums feature childhood artifacts through the curatorial and display conventions of museums and art galleries, in combination with the active play environments and learning stations of science-oriented children’s museums. These exhibits also reflect the changing place of the museum as an institution in the age of the “participatory museum”: a movement away from collections towards interactive curatorial practices across physical and digital archives (Simon 2010; Janes 2011). Framed by cross-disciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches from critical children’s museology, picture book theory, and children’s culture studies, this analysis draws upon selected examples (2014-2018) of curatorial practices, exhibits, and the spatial/ architectural design from Seven Stories: National Centre for Children’s Books (Newcastle, UK), the Hans Christian Andersen Haus/Tinderbox (Odense, Denmark), and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Amherst, MA, USA). These institutions provide distinctive venues to examine the tensions between discourses of museums as institutions that house collections of material artifacts including children’s literature texts, discourses of the creative child and ‘hands-on’ engagement (Ogata 2013); and discourses of critical engagement and participatory museums. While these exhibits affirm idealized representations of childhood to some extent, participatory engagements across old and new media within these spaces have significant potential for critical and subversive dialogue with ideological constructions and representations of gender, race, socio-economic class, mobility and nationalism rooted in the children’s literature texts.
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Štifanić, Mirko. "Društveni aspekti starenja i obolijevanja." Diacovensia 26, no. 3 (2018): 505–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31823/d.26.3.8.
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With the help of relevant literature the paper analyses social aspects of ageing and getting ill. The author concludes that none of the scientific theories by themselves hold the solution for studying these complex processes and the position of old people in the modern society, and that the interdisciplinary approach is the best. To accomplish the set goal, the article discusses: a) theories that help us understand old age and ageing, and allow us to define social and healthcare policies in everyday conditions, which directly affects the attitude of individuals, families and the society towards the constantly growing group of old and ill people, and b) the understanding of old age and ageing through history and the present which helps affirming those behavior patterns and activities that are an alternative to the one-sided, stigmatizing and at times segregating attitude towards people over 65 years of age. This may help institutional reforms of social and health care systems to allow for a different quality, and in some segments an entirely different attitude towards old people so they would not feel redundant and forsaken by families and the society in the otherwise difficult conditions of transition, as well as to find answers to increasingly more complex and important social, healthcare, legal, economic and ethical questions, in our parts, that are: a) current, b) insufficiently discussed, c) lacking a systematic and comprehensive representation.
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Nikam, Dr Sudhir, and Mr Kamble Rajiv Bhimrao. "Multicultural Representation in Margaret Laurence’s This Side Jordan." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 5, no. 12 (December 28, 2017): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v5i12.10161.
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Margaret Laurence has respectfully been considered as one of the leading writers of twentieth century Canadian Literature. She has played a pivotal role in the process of presenting Canadian identity as Multicultural in literary and academic field. She has endeavored to portray the picture of cultural turmoil in Canada on the wake of colonization, post-colonization and modernization. Her African writing speaks of the imperial rule of European countries in Africa and its repercussions on the cultural development of colonizer and colonized people. Unlike other colonial writers, Margaret Laurence strongly asserts the changing scenario of age old cultural homogeneity. No nation will stand culturally homogenous but has to accept multiculturalism as the policy of nation.
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Gaidash, Anna. "LITERARY GERONTOLOGY: DEFINITION, HISTORY, CONCEPTS." LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, no. 13 (2019): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2019.133.
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The goal of the article is to provide an extended definition and in-depth description of literary gerontology as a branch of humanities. Contemporary world witnesses how the number of elderly people increases that makes the research relevant. Literary gerontology forms in the mid-1970s in the framework of age studies. Scholars of literary gerontology examine the gerontological markers in fictional texts. Unlike sociologists or medical gerontologists who regard biological aging as involution of the body/brain and degradation of the individual, the literary scholars consider fictional representations of late adulthood in a much more contrastive and tragic focus: elderly people are forced to deal with numerous negative stereotypes of old age in a youth-oriented culture. Therefore the key concept of literary gerontology studies is ageism which etymology is traced in the lexical unit of “age”. Its initial meaning “lifetime; maturity; vital force” is lost over time, acquiring the connotation of “decline” (feebleness; senility). One of the problems of literary gerontology studies is the widespread use of ageist euphemisms in fiction. The methods used in the paper are mixed: historical data processing, analyses of interdisciplinary resources (literary gerontology, social gerontology, age studies). The results can be practical for classes of theory of literature and social gerontology. The findings of the paper inform of the origin of literary gerontology studies, its key concept of ageism and a set of semantic and poetic tools for further research.
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Leman, Peter. "The Politics of Living Death in Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk." Novel 54, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 85–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8868815.
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Abstract This article examines Nuruddin Farah's 1979 novel Sweet and Sour Milk, asking how we read representations of postcolonial mourning and living death in the context of global authoritarianism. The first novel in Farah's influential dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk introduces us to “the General,” a fictionalized version of Siyad Barre, who ruled Somalia from 1969 to 1991. Like Barre's, the General's power exemplifies what Achille Mbembe calls “necropolitics,” or “the contemporary subjugation of life to the power of death.” The General's necropower manifests, peculiarly, as a politics of substitution—that is, when he takes a life, he leaves something in its place. Rebels do not simply disappear; they are killed and then given sycophantic zombie afterlives in the General's propaganda. In response to this politics of substitution, Farah explores a politics of mourning, which insists upon the irreplaceability of lost love objects and thereby broadly reveals what truly can and cannot be substituted. The General insists on the uniqueness of his power, for example, but Farah reveals it to be a cliché, easily substituted by that of other dictators throughout history. Cliché becomes revolutionary in this way, suggesting that dictators share a common fate: they will be deposed or, eventually, die of old age. However, like a horde of the living dead, others like them will return. The article concludes with analysis of the apparent pessimism of this point and the global implications of Farah's ideas about both necropolitics and the limits of the novel form in the face of authoritarian power.
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Simon, Ellen, and Matthias J. Sjerps. "Phonological category quality in the mental lexicon of child and adult learners." International Journal of Bilingualism 21, no. 4 (March 10, 2016): 474–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006915626589.
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Aims and objectives: The aim was to identify which criteria children use to decide on the category membership of native and non-native vowels, and to get insight into the organization of phonological representations in the bilingual mind. Methodology: The study consisted of two cross-language mispronunciation detection tasks in which L2 vowels were inserted into L1 words and vice versa. In Experiment 1, 10- to 12-year-old Dutch-speaking children were presented with Dutch words which were either pronounced with the target Dutch vowel or with an English vowel inserted in the Dutch consonantal frame. Experiment 2 was a mirror of the first, with English words which were pronounced “correctly” or which were “mispronounced” with a Dutch vowel. Data and analysis: Analyses focused on extent to which child and adult listeners accepted substitutions of Dutch vowels by English ones, and vice versa. Findings: The results of Experiment 1 revealed that between the age of ten and twelve children have well-established phonological vowel categories in their native language. However, Experiment 2 showed that in their non-native language, children tended to accept mispronounced items which involve sounds from their native language. At the same time, though, they did not fully rely on their native phonemic inventory because the children accepted most of the correctly pronounced English items. Originality: While many studies have examined native and non-native perception by infants and adults, studies on first and second language perception of school-age children are rare. This study adds to the body of literature aimed at expanding our knowledge in this area. Implications: The study has implications for models of the organization of the bilingual mind: while proficient adult non-native listeners generally have clearly separated sets of phonological representations for their two languages, for non-proficient child learners the L1 phonology still exerts a strong influence on the L2 phonology.
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Nowak, Alicja Z. "Starość nie tylko latami mierzona w ruskiej literaturze żałobnej XVII wiek." Slavica Wratislaviensia 163 (March 17, 2017): 337–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.163.29.
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Senescence counted not only in yearsin Ruthenian mourning literature 17th centuryIn Ukrainian and Belarusian 17th century literature of mourning there is no one common to all the authors vision of old age. It was presented as adifficult state, filled with suffering and even dangerous for those whom mental and bodily weakness prevented the holding of penance-delayed too long. At the same time, this grim vision coexisted with the optimistic picture of the autumn of life active and fruitful in creative activities. Old age was the penalty for sin, but also one way of moving away from him and sourcing selection everlasting. Old age was sometimes synonymous with maturity, wisdom, young people, could be asymbol of duration in sin.Despite that dra ws certain tendency to recognition of the topic related to the fact that these considerations were partly subordinated to panegyric, and above all pastoral goal. Traditional mourning for the composition elements: to show the size of the loss, mourning the dead or solace grief of the living, most often occur as acomponent of moral exhortations and instructions. The explanation of this trend must be sought in an environment of contemporary authors’ funeral compositions. They were mainly representatives of the intellectual elite of clerical: priests, bishops and archimandrites; church reformers at the same time, cultural activists, workers and publisher. So those who took on their shoulders the renewal of religious life and spiritual and cultural life in The Metropolitanate of Kiev, realizing it and by disseminated in mourning texts role models and moral attitude.Старість не тільки роками вилічуванав руській траурній літературі 17 століттяВ українській та білоруській жалобній літературі 17-го століття відсутнє спільне для всіх авторів бачення старості. Вона зображена передусім як складний стан, наповнений стражданням, особливо небезпечний для тих, кому психічна та тілесна слабість не дозволила здійснити надто довго відкладуваного покаяння. Водночас цей похмурий образ співіснував з оптимістичною картиною осени життя — активної і плідної творчою діяльністю. Старість була водночас покаранням за гріх, засобом відходу від нього і здобування доброї вічності. Іноді — синонімом зрілості, мудрості молодих, або символом гріховного існування.Попри ці суперечності у підході до проблеми старості можна простежити певну тенденцію використання теми. Вона пов’язана з фактом часткового її підпорядкування панегіричній та, перш за все, пастирській меті. Традиційні елементи траурних композицій: зазначення розміру втрати, оплакування померлого, заспокоєння душевного болю живих — найчастіше виступають як компоненти моральних настанов та інструкцій.Пояснення цієї тенденції слід шукати в середовищі авторів — в основному представників інтелектуальної еліти, насамперед духовної єпископи, ігумени та архімандрити, в той же час церковних реформаторів, культурних діячів, видавців. Отже, це були подвижники оновлення релігійного та духовно-культурного життя в Київській Митрополії, які реалізували його, між іншим, шляхом поширення в траурних текстах життєвих взірців та зразків моральної поведінки.
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Serrano, José M. "The Ritual of “Encircling the Tomb” in the Funerary Monument of Djehuty (TT 11)." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 146, no. 2 (November 1, 2019): 209–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaes-2019-0018.
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Summary In the Theban tomb of Djehuty (TT 11) we have the representation of a ritual apparently focused on surrounding the funerary monument. The objective of this paper is the reconstruction of the scene, and the text that accompanies it, thanks to the parallel of TT 20 (Montuherkhepeshef). This allows us to link this ritual to the Pap. Ramesseum E and other antecedents of the Old and Middle Kingdom. An interpretation within the historical, religious and cultural context of the age of Hatshepsut-Thutmose III, and a possible relationship with the Middle Egypt background of the owners of TT 11 and TT 20 is also proposed.
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Zadrozny, Sara. "Women’s Ageing as Disease." Humanities 8, no. 2 (April 15, 2019): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8020075.
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In the medical humanities, there has been a growing interest in diagnosing disease in fictional characters, particularly with the idea that characters in Charles Dickens’s novels may be suffering from diseases recognised today. However, an area that deserves greater attention is the representation of women’s ageing as disease in Victorian literature and medical narratives. Even as Victorian doctors were trying to cure age-related illnesses, they continued to employ classical notions of unhealthy female ageing. For all his interest in medical matters, the novelist Charles Dickens wrote about old women in a similar vein. Using close reading to analyse Victorian gerontology alongside Charles Dickens’s novels Dombey and Son (1848) and Great Expectations (1861), this article examines narratives of female ageing as disease. It concludes by pointing to the ways that Victorian gerontology impacts on how we view women’s ageing as ‘diseased’ today.
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Miric, Aleksandra, Goran Jovanovic, and Nadja Kurtovic-Folic. "The Selamluk in Vranje (part I): Architectonic form development based on historical sources." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering 14, no. 3 (2016): 367–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace1603367m.
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Pasini konaci (Pasha?s residence), Selamluk and Haremluk in Vranje, are typical representatives of Balkan Oriental architecture of 18th century. In spite of the buildings becoming very decrepit and prone to dilapidation due to their structural characteristics, in terms of their function and construction technique, they represent an evidence of the living standard of a social class and the social relationships of the historical age they belong to. With the aid of an analysis of historical data, the part 1 of this paper presented the results of the research of the origins and development of the Selamluk in Vranje and its surrounding area with an attempt to determine architectonic genesis from the original structure, through the destruction phases and reconstruction to the present day status. In addition to the information published in the relevant literature, the data were collected by analyzing old plans, photographs and documents archived in various cultural institutions. In the part 2 of this paper, the structural and decorative elements of the Selamluk are discussed for the first time in literature.
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Naumova, Valentina A., and Janna M. Glozman. "Representations of old age in chilhood." National Psychological Journal 41, no. 1 (2021): 160–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.11621/npj.2021.0113.
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Background. The relevance of the study is determined by the limited and sometimes contradictory studies of the views of preschoolers about the elderly. Stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination against older people can manifest themselves in children at an early age. However, the nature of the formation and the factors influencing this phenomenon are not well known. Objective. The aim of the study was to study the features of the image of an old person in a children’s sample, depending on the (in) ability to communicate with their grandparents. Research hypothesis: preschoolers with a lack of communication with the older generation will demonstrate a rather neutral image of an old person, and the presence of an emotional component will be expressed in the constructor of the image of children with a sufficient level of communication with their grandparents. Design. The research involved 67 child-parent dyads: 67 preschoolers aged 5 to 6.8 years (56.7% girls and 43.3% boys); 67 parents (85.1% of mothers and 14.9% of fathers) aged 23 to 59. As research methods to study the representations (image) of an old person in the children’s sample, the projective method of the drawing test was used. “Directed associative experiment “ method and questioning were used in the parental sample. The questionnaire included questions aimed at studying the relationship of the grandparents with the child and the opinions of parents about the problem and (non) participation of grandparents in raising grandchildren. Results. In the children’s sample, the image of an old person is rather stereotypically neutral, but at the same time has certain specific features. The importance of the quality of communication between a child and his grandparents was shown, which determines the emotional coloring of the perception of the forming image of old people and old age in general. For children who experienced “lack of communication” with their ancestors, the image of an old person is personalized with “strangers” or “nobody’s old men.” In the parental sample the presented associations demonstrate a view of the “negative and positive” image of an old person through the prism of (non) preservation of vital competence, functional well-being, and a dynamic health / illness system. A neutral image is represented by respondents as a variant of entering the new status of a retiree and grandparent. No mutual influence was found between parental and childish views. Conclusions. A child of preschool age can demonstrate his own unique view of an old person, which is not at all identical to the views of his parents, those around him and social stereotypes. The experience of a constructive relationship between grandparents and grandchildren can serve as a reliable basis for constructing a positive image of an old person and old age in general by young children. The prospect of further research can be the study of the problem of psychological culture and the readiness of an elderly person to dialogue with a child; problems of organizing effective “combining old and small” programs, mutually enriching the dialogue of generations.
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Iguma, Karina Emy, Orivaldo Tavano, and Izabel Maria Marchi de Carvalho. "Comparative analysis of pubertal growth spurt predictors: Martins and Sakima method and Grave and Brown method." Journal of Applied Oral Science 13, no. 1 (March 2005): 58–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1678-77572005000100012.
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The aim of this study was to evaluate whether Martins and Sakima and Grave and Brown methods are useful for the study of pubertal growth spurt in children with cleft lip and palate. A total of 132 hand-wrist radiographs of patients from HRAC/USP aged 7 to 17 years old were analyzed, including girls and boys. Six radiographs of each age and gender were employed. These methods were applied to evaluating the stages of the hand-wrist ossification and epiphyseal formation, by graphic representation. The Martins and Sakima and the Grave and Brown methods revealed that the initial, peak and final stages of pubertal growth spurt occurred between 9 to 10, 12 and 15 years old, respectively, in the female gender. Similarly, in the male gender, both Martins and Sakima and Grave and Brown methods showed similar mean ages: 12, 14 and 16 years old for initial, peak and final stages of pubertal growth spurt, respectively. The Pearson's correlation test showed high and significant correlation (r = 0.99 and p < 0.001) between the methods investigated. In conclusion, the methods appeared to be highly and significantly correlated as regards the analysis of children with cleft lip and palate. Moreover, based on the literature and present results, it is possible to suggest that the two methods have shown similar pattern and may be used with equal efficiency for assessment of the pubertal growth spurt in children with cleft lip and palate.
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Christensen, Christa Lykke. "Visualising Old Age." Nordicom Review 40, no. 2 (March 1, 2019): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0036.
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Abstract This article studies how the Danish advocacy group for older people, Ældre Sagen (the DaneAge Association, or DAA), of which around 46 per cent of all Danes over the age of 65 are members, visually represents older people. The study gains theoretical inspiration from media and cultural-gerontological theories concerning the cultural influence of media representations of older people, and the connected perceptions of what it means to be and to grow old. The study is based on an analysis of a sample of 59 photographs that appeared on DAA’s website in the period 2016−2018. The results indicate a dominant visual representation of older people as happy, socially involved and extroverted, while representations of older people as weak, introverted and alone constitute a minority. In conclusion, the organisation visually promote a positive image of older people, at the same time as they represent them as excluded from other age groups and from culture and society in general.
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Huang, Shih-Feng, Yung-Hsuan Wen, Chi-Hsiang Chu, and Chien-Chin Hsu. "A Shape Approximation for Medical Imaging Data." Sensors 20, no. 20 (October 17, 2020): 5879. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20205879.
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This study proposes a shape approximation approach to portray the regions of interest (ROI) from medical imaging data. An effective algorithm to achieve an optimal approximation is proposed based on the framework of Particle Swarm Optimization. The convergence of the proposed algorithm is derived under mild assumptions on the selected family of shape equations. The issue of detecting Parkinson’s disease (PD) based on the Tc-99m TRODAT-1 brain SPECT/CT images of 634 subjects, with 305 female and an average age of 68.3 years old from Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, is employed to demonstrate the proposed procedure by fitting optimal ellipse and cashew-shaped equations in the 2D and 3D spaces, respectively. According to the visual interpretation of 3 experienced board-certified nuclear medicine physicians, 256 subjects are determined to be abnormal, 77 subjects are potentially abnormal, 174 are normal, and 127 are nearly normal. The coefficients of the ellipse and cashew-shaped equations, together with some well-known features of PD existing in the literature, are employed to learn PD classifiers under various machine learning approaches. A repeated hold-out with 100 rounds of 5-fold cross-validation and stratified sampling scheme is adopted to investigate the classification performances of different machine learning methods and different sets of features. The empirical results reveal that our method obtains 0.88 ± 0.04 classification accuracy, 0.87 ± 0.06 sensitivity, and 0.88 ± 0.08 specificity for test data when including the coefficients of the ellipse and cashew-shaped equations. Our findings indicate that more constructive and useful features can be extracted from proper mathematical representations of the 2D and 3D shapes for a specific ROI in medical imaging data, which shows their potential for improving the accuracy of automated PD identification.
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Nikam, Dr Madhavi, and Ms Jyothi Sadasivam. "Magic Realism, Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Children’s Fiction in India: Reshaping Gender Attitudes." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 5, no. 5 (May 28, 2017): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v5i5.10155.
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One of the objectives of using fiction as a medium of socialization of children is to infuse an understanding of gender roles in society. A number of children’s fiction books published in India in the last couple of decades have addressed this concern and contemporary critical studies on children’s literature have focused on the representation of gender and the biases inherent in it. Globalisation and the staggering advance of technology have triggered innovative fictional responses to gender roles and attitudes to appeal to the digital generation addicted to virtual reality and video games. The children’s text examined in this study represents technology as empowering adolescents and investing them with the capacity to transform age-old conservative attitudes towards gender identities specifically manifested in the still recurrent practice of female foeticide in India. Ranjit Lal’s Faces in the Water, creates a kind of magic realism by interweaving virtual reality into an everyday organic world, almost blurring the distinction between the two; an experimental narrative device that aims at re-examining conventional notions of masculinity and feminity. The purpose of creating an alternate world of virtual experiences is to comment upon the real world and effect transformatory action.
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Hafeez, Aamir, and Syed Manzoor Hussain Shah. "Gender Differences In Determinants Of Medical Career Choice." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 13, no. 1 (September 8, 2016): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v13i1.179.
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This study aimed to identify the determinants of medical career whether these determinants varied across gender. Drawing from extensive study of existing literature, twenty determinants of medical career were shortlisted. A 60-item purposespecific reliable instrument, designed to assess the comparative influence of determinants, was administered on cross-gender sample of 550 respondents from four public and private medical colleges in Hazara Division of Pakistan. The sample was selected through systematic random sampling, giving gender representation due weight; 293 female students were selected against 253 males. The results showed significant gender-based differences across determinants. The female medical students were found to possess greater social motivation and stronger personality traits than their male counterparts who, with weak personality traits, suffered social and economic compulsions and were only motivated by pecuniary considerations. In the light of findings of the study, it is recommended that due caution be exercised in forming gender-related opinions and sanctifying age-old ‘established’ views. It is preferable that natural inclinations are nurtured to eventually pave way for a psychologically healthy society comprising individuals seeking success through inner fulfilment than through adjustment to unbending and arbitrary social dictates.
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Linde-Krieger, Linnea, and Tuppett M. Yates. "Mothers’ History of Child Sexual Abuse and Child Behavior Problems: The Mediating Role of Mothers’ Helpless State of Mind." Child Maltreatment 23, no. 4 (May 14, 2018): 376–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559518775536.
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This investigation evaluated a theoretically specified model of associations among mothers’ history of child sexual abuse (CSA), a helpless state of mind (SOM) with regard to the mother–child relationship, and increased behavior problems in the next generation. Moreover, we evaluated the moderating influence of child gender on predicted relations between mothers’ CSA severity and helpless SOM (i.e., moderated mediation). Participants were 225 biological mother–preschooler dyads (48% female; 46.4% Latinx) drawn from an ongoing, longitudinal study of representation and regulation in child development. Mothers’ history of CSA was assessed when their children were 4 years old and emerged as a prominent risk factor in this diverse, high-risk community sample with 40% of mothers reporting contact-based sexual abuse prior to age 18. Mediation analyses revealed a significant indirect pathway from a continuous rating of mothers’ CSA severity to increased externalizing behavior problems from ages 4 to 8 in the next generation via mothers’ helpless SOM at age 6. Further, this indirect path was significant for mother–daughter dyads, but not for mother–son dyads. This investigation contributes to the neophyte literature on intergenerational CSA effects by revealing the impact of a mother’s CSA history on her SOM regarding the mother–child relationship, particularly when parenting daughters. Clinical interventions that enhance survivors’ awareness of and reflection on their SOM regarding the parent–child relationship may attenuate intergenerational CSA effects on child adaptation.
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Yu, Holly, Nestor Flaster, Adrian Casanello, and Daniel Curcio. "1498. Assess Risk Factors, Mortality, and Healthcare Utilization Associated with Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI) in 4 Latin American Countries." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 6, Supplement_2 (October 2019): S545. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1362.
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Abstract Background In contrast to Europe and North America, little is known about Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in Latin America, especially about risk factors, mortality, and healthcare utilization. Methods We conducted a retrospective, case–control study at eight hospital centers in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Hospital databases and medical records were used to identify nosocomial CDI cases from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2017. CDI cases were patients with diarrhea and a positive CDI testing ≥72 hours after hospital admission. Two controls with no CDI diagnosis and diarrhea were matched to each CDI case and were required to (1) have a length of hospital stay (LOS) ≥ 3 days, (2) be admitted ±14 days from the case, and (3) share the same ward. Risk factors associated with CDI were assessed by conditional logistic regression. Mortality and healthcare utilization were compared between cases and controls. Results A total of 1,443 patients (≥18 years old) who met eligibility criteria were selected (481 cases and 962 controls). Comparing cases to controls, the mean age and gender representation were similar (age: 58.7 vs. 56.7 years, P = 0.269; male: 56.3% vs. 53.4%, P = 0.293), but comorbidity was higher (mean Charlson Comorbidity index: 4.3 vs. 3.6, p Conclusion Antibiotic exposure, existing medical conditions, and recent hospital admission are CDI major risk factors in Latin America. CDI also increased in-hospital death risk and LOS. These findings are consistent with published literature in developed countries. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.
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Ardèvol, Mireia Fernández. "REPRESENTATIONS OF OLD AGE IN THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS WORLD." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.085.
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Abstract This paper examines representations of old age at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019, identifying how explicit product discourses identify later life with Fourth Age dependency, fragility, decline, and care, as is the case with the home and companion-robot industry. While designers take a Fourth Age approach to the ‘senior market’, they liken their products with those for children, as both old and young are stereotyped as requiring surveillance based on their assumed weaknesses. Thus the technological depictions of old age neglect the diversities of older populations and reinforce dominant ageist and homogenizing narratives about older life as disempowering, passive, and digitally divided. Conclusions question why technological design aimed at helping older individuals are uninformed and misconceived about the realities of later life and what recommendations may be offered to resolve this resulting ageism.
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Regalia, Ida. "Labour regulation in small firms." Employee Relations 39, no. 3 (April 3, 2017): 335–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/er-08-2016-0159.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight a series of critical points in the traditional theory (and practice) of ER/IR, in search of a more comprehensive paradigm. Design/methodology/approach After an introduction based on a literature review, the paper draws on the results of recent empirical research, and particularly of a survey of employment relations in Italian small firms, in order to explore the extent to which practices conform to traditional expectations on the functioning of collectively mediated IR systems. Findings Through the combination of two dimensions – the representation of labour and the degree of workplace welfare – a typology of ER models in small firms is thus delineated unveiling the diffusion of “anomalous” configurations, in which labour organization and workplace welfare are disconnected from one another. Research limitations/implications The research results, which are here instrumentally used as an example of a much broader range of facts and behaviours that challenge the traditional wisdom, disclose a number of implications at theoretical level, that still need to be fully appreciated. They include the need to consider: the structure and composition of resources available to ER/IR actors both within and beyond workplaces; and the conditions for good labour relations also in absence of representation. Originality/value The paper contributes to the debate on the possibilities of positive and socially acceptable ways of setting the rules of work in the globalized scenario by focussing not on new, fashionable issues, but on an old problem often neglected by classic studies on industrial relations in the golden age.
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Cohen-Shalev, Amir, and Esther-Lee Marcus. "“Equally mixed”: artistic representations of old love." International Journal of Ageing and Later Life 10, no. 2 (February 4, 2016): 61–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.15281.
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Michael Haneke’s (2012) film Amour is used as a point of departure for discussing a spectrum of artistic representations of ‘‘old love,’’ a phenomenon that is still little understood. While most critics have focused on euthanasia when referring to the film’s dramatic climax, its late-life perspective of love has been marginalized. Analyzing Amour, as well as other recent cinematic and poetic texts, we challenge the widespread midlife and ageist perception of ‘‘April love,’’ contrasting it with different views from within old love. Our reading of Amour illustrates the effects of intense, all-encompassing, and sealed intimacy in advanced old age and sheds light on potential consequences it may have on the decisions and lives of the people involved. We conclude by discussing how certain forms of love, seen from within, unfold in tandem with age or life phases that affect the pace, emotional, and interpersonal nature of the partnership.
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Freitas, Maria Célia de, and Maria Assunção Ferreira. "Old age and elderly people: social representations of adolescent students." Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem 21, no. 3 (June 2013): 750–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-11692013000300014.
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OBJECTIVE: to know the main elements of social representations about elderly people and old age among adolescents at a public high school. METHOD: 172 adolescents between 14 and 19 years of age participated. The free evocation of words technique was applied through the terms elderly and old age. RESULTS: The main elements of the representations significantly designed for elderly people were: respect and disrespect, 78; experience, 49; care, 32; wisdom, 23; fragility, 19. For old age: disease, 51; retirement, 27; experience, 27; wisdom, 19; wrinkles, 17. The social representations of adolescents are strongly marked by physical, psychological and social aspects, with positive and negative aspects about old age. CONCLUSION: Participatory health education activities are needed to make adolescents critically reflect on and the condition of elderly people in contemporary society.
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ERTAYLAN, Arzu. "THE REPRESENTATIONS OF OLD AGE IN TURKISH CINEMA AFTER 1990S." TURKISH ONLINE JOURNAL OF DESIGN, ART AND COMMUNICATION 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7456/10601100/001.
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Cohen-Shalev, Amir, and Esther-Lee Marcus. "Golden Years and Silver Screens: Cinematic Representations of Old Age." Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts 1, no. 1-2 (June 8, 2007): 85–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19325610701411062.
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Irina L. Savkina, Irina. "“And old age is here, nearby”: Representations of old age and aging in diaries of the Soviet era." Shagi / Steps 5, no. 2 (2019): 188–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2019-5-2-188-210.
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Zueva, А. A. "Representations of the elderly and old age in the human mind." Science and Education a New Dimension VII(202), no. 82 (September 25, 2019): 67–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31174/send-pp2019-202vii82-15.
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QUÉNIART, ANNE, and MICHÈLE CHARPENTIER. "Older women and their representations of old age: a qualitative analysis." Ageing and Society 32, no. 6 (October 10, 2011): 983–1007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x1100078x.
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ABSTRACTIn this article we shall be analysing the representations of old age and ageing made by three generations of older women with different life stories (single, married, children and childless). Our principal findings, based on a qualitative analysis of 25 in-depth interviews conducted with three generations of older women (65–74, 75–84 and 85 and older), mainly reveal their reluctance and even refusal to define themselves as ‘older or elderly women’, largely due to persistent stereotypes linking old age to dependency, social isolation and fragility. Aware of the social prejudice regarding women and old age, they reject it unanimously. Older women represent a challenge to these homogenising preconceptions of old age, which they, on the contrary, experience in a multitude of ways, often enjoyable. Their conceptions of ‘ageing well’ are diverse and do not correspond to a clinical definition of ageing. Their representations of ‘ageing well’ and of ageing express positive values of autonomy, independence, consistency and integrity, maintenance of physical and intellectual health, and being socially active so they can ‘stay in the swing of things’, in the continuum of their lives and future projects, rather breaking with contemporary life or existing on the margins of society.
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Ailawadhi, Sikander, Dongyun Yang, Gaurav Patel, Yin Zhang, Ibrahim T. Aldoss, Miriam Y. Kim, and Asher Chanan-Khan. "Outcome Disparities In Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia: A SEER Database Analysis." Blood 118, no. 21 (November 18, 2011): 845. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v118.21.845.845.
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Abstract Abstract 845 Background: Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM) is a relatively uncommon plasma cell disorder and most of previous literature is limited to small patient series. We have noted ethnic disparities in multiple myeloma, another plasma cell disorder. We undertook a large Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) based analysis to describe outcome disparities in different subgroups of WM patients, with a focus on various ethnicities, so that therapeutic resources can be targeted more effectively. Methods: The SEER 17 Registry data (1973–2008) was utilized for patients with confirmed diagnosis of WM. To avoid bias of under representation of different ethnicities, analysis was restricted to patients with a diagnosis date of 1992 or later. Cases that received a diagnosis at death certificate or autopsy, no follow-up records, as well as lacking documentation on age at diagnosis, sex, or race/ethnicity were excluded. Cox proportional hazards models, adjusted for gender, age, race, year of diagnosis, marital status and stratified by SEER registries were used to evaluate associatio n between patient characteristics and survival. All statistical tests were two-sided and utilized the SAS software (v9.2) with a significance level of 0.05. Results: The final analysis included 2,840 WM patients (1,759 males; 62%, 1,081 females; 38%). The studied age-group cohorts included: 18–64 yrs (845; 30%), 65–74 yrs (795; 28%) and >75 yrs (1,200; 42%). Patients were stratified by race/ethnicity: White (2,471; 87%), African-American (AA) (102; 4%), Hispanic (133; 5%), Asian (129; 5%), and Native American (5; 0.1%). Patients were also stratified based on year of diagnosis (before or after 2002) to study the impact of certain novel agents (proteasome inhibitors, IMiDs) on WM treatment. There was a significant difference in the age at diagnosis of WM patients across different ethnicities, with AA the youngest (median 61.5 years) and Whites the oldest (median 73 years) subgroup (p<0.001). (Figure 1) Cause-specific mortality could not be evaluated due to variable documentation of reported causes of death for WM patients in the database. Survival analysis revealed that for all patients, females had better median overall survival (OS) than males (7.3 years vs. 6.2 years, HR 0.834; 95% CI 0.740, 0.939; p=0.003). Among the different age cohorts, patients with age ≥75 years had a significantly worse median OS (4.1 years) than those 65–74 year-old (7.3 years) or 18–64 year-old (10+ years) (p<0.001). Patients diagnosed after 2002 had a significantly better median OS (7.3 years) as compared to patients diagnosed previously (6.1 years) (p=0.002). Hispanics had the worst median OS (5 years) and Whites had the best median OS (6.8 years) across various ethnicities. In a multivariate model using gender, age, marital status, year of diagnosis and race, a significant interaction was noted between race, age and survival, with Hispanics having a significantly worse OS than Whites (HR 1.86; 95% CI 1.269, 2.726; p=0.003) (Figure 2). Conclusions: Studies of outcome disparities are important for evaluating disease characteristics and management needs of specific patient populations as well as optimal triaging of healthcare resources. We have performed the largest population-based analysis for WM including various ethnicities in the novel therapeutic agent era. We observed that AA patients had a significantly younger age at WM diagnosis. Older patients had worse OS across all ethnic subgroups and patients diagnosed after 2002 had a better OS suggesting an impact of novel therapeutic agents (e.g., proteasome inhibitors, IMiDs). Hispanic WM patients had the worst OS among all ethnicities. This survival difference was more significant and pronounced in patients >75 years. This suggests that the impact of race on survival is influenced by patient's age. These results will help in better understanding of various influences on disease biology and clinical behavior. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Paula, Gabriela Silveira de, and Patrícia Do Socorro Magalhães Franco Espírito-Santo. "Being old, being healthy: the dimension of health in the social representations of old age." Revista de Enfermagem UFPE on line 6, no. 1 (December 10, 2011): 132. http://dx.doi.org/10.5205/reuol.2052-14823-1-le.0601201219.
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ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the social representations of the elderly on aging and experiences related to health involved in this process. Methodology: the qualitative methodology was applied; data collection was carried out through participant observation, semi-structured interviews and field journal. The interviews were recorded, and a signed a free and clear consent form was obtained, with seven elderly volunteers in Franca – São Paulo, Brazil. The study was approved by Uni-FACEF´s Research Ethics Committee (035/2009). Results: from the analyses of the interviews, three social representations were found among which health constituted the center of discussion: (1) Life silencing: a stigmatized old age where health is determined by declining physical and mental capacities; (2) New identity: an active old age where health is what provides freedom and independence; (3) A natural process: old age is an expected stage and health is spiritual well-being. Conclusions: these results show that social representations of old age are associated to the current redefinition of health; to a positive concept of health; and to the individual’s responsibility for health, that is associated with the aging reprivatization. Key words: Aging; health; social representations; contemporaneity. RESUMO Objetivo: compreender as representações sociais do idoso acerca do envelhecer e das vivências relativas à saúde implicadas neste processo. Metodologia: utilizou-se a metodologia qualitativa, a coleta de dados foi realizada por meio da observação participante, entrevistas semi-estruturadas, e diário de campo. Após a assinatura dos termos de consentimento livre e esclarecido, as entrevistas foram gravadas com sete idosos voluntários na cidade de Franca – SP. Para preservar a identidade dos participantes, todos os nomes utilizados neste artigo são fictícios. O projeto de pesquisa foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa do Centro Universitário de Franca (protocolo 035/2009). Resultados: a partir das análises das entrevistas, emergiram três RS acerca da velhice, nas quais a saúde constituiu-se em eixo de discussão: (1) A vida silenciando: uma velhice estigmatizada, em que a saúde é marcada por declínios nas capacidades físicas e mentais; (2) A Nova identidade: uma velhice ativa em que a saúde é aquilo que dá liberdade e independência; (3) Um Processo natural: a velhice é uma etapa esperada, e a saúde é o bem-estar espiritual. Conclusões: tais resultados demonstram que as RS da velhice estão associadas à atual ressignificação da saúde; a um conceito positivo de saúde; e à responsabilização individual pela saúde, a qual se associa à reprivatização do envelhecimento. Descritores: envelhecimento; saúde; representações sociais; contemporaneidade. RESUMEN Objetivo: comprender las representaciones sociales de las personas mayores sobre el envejecimiento y las experiencias relacionadas con la salud implicada en este proceso. Metodología: se utilizó una metodología cualitativa, la recolección de datos fue realizada por medio de la observación participante, entrevistas semi-estructuradas y diario de campo. Las entrevistas fueron grabadas, firmados los términos del consentimiento libre e informado, con siete voluntarios de la ciudad de Franca – São Paulo, Brasil. El estudio fue aprobado por el Comité de Ética en Investigación de la Uni-FACEF. Resultados: a partir del análisis de las entrevistas, reveló tres representaciones sociales sobre la vejez, donde la salud se constituyó en un eje de discusión: (1) La vida silenciando: una vejez estigmatizada, donde la salud se caracteriza por la disminución de la capacidad física y mental, (2) La nueva identidad: una vejez activa, donde la salud es lo que concede libertad e independencia, (3) Un proceso natural: el envejecimiento es un paso esperado y la salud es el bienestar espiritual. Conclusiones: Estos resultados demuestran que las representaciones sociales de la edad están asociadas con la actual resignificación de la salud; con un concepto positivo de la salud, que se asocia con la reprivatización del envejecimiento. Descriptores: Envejecimiento; salud; representaciones sociales; contemporaneidad.
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Shaw, Brent D. "Roman Old Age." Classical Review 55, no. 1 (March 2005): 302–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/clrevj/bni168.
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deAngeli, Edna, Thomas Falkner, and Judith de Luce. "Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature." Classical World 84, no. 3 (1991): 252. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4350792.
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Garland, R., Thomas M. Falkner, Judith de Luce, George Minois, and S. H. Tenison. "Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature." Phoenix 46, no. 1 (1992): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1088776.
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Manor, Gal. "“Grow Old Along With Me”: Robert Browning’s Conception of Jewish Old Age." SAGE Open 10, no. 2 (April 2020): 215824402091953. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244020919534.
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Robert Browning often explored the concepts of old age and dying in his poems, and surprisingly enough, some of these most striking poems use Hebraic sources as intertexts. This article will explore Robert Browning’s idea of old age as it is conveyed in “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” “Pisgah Sights,” and “Jochanan Hakkadosh,” three poems in which Browning turns to Hebrew sources to explore philosophical and mystical narratives of aging. Written against the emerging Victorian conception of the elderly subject, these poems merge two forms of Victorian Otherness—Judaism and old age—so as to create an alternative and celebratory vision of the last stage of life. These representations of old age also reflect Robert Browning’s biographical old age, which introduced long-awaited popularity and critical acclaim, and the evolution of his favorite form, the dramatic monologue.