Baby Boomers: Time and Ageing Bodies
Naomi Woodspring
Abstract
This innovative study of the baby boomer generation, who are now entering old age, breaks new ground in ageing research. This post-war cohort has experienced a range of social, cultural, and medical changes in regard to their notions of body, from the introduction of the Pill and the decoupling of sex and procreation to the H-Bomb and Earthrise. Yet, paradoxically, ageing is also universal. This exciting book reflects the intersection of time, ageing, body and identity to give a more nuanced and enlightened understanding of the ageing process.
Keywords: baby boomer generation, old age, ageing research, postwar cohort, social, cultural, medical changes, h bomb, earthrise
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9781447318774 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2017 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447318774.001.0001 |
