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Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well

by Anna I Corwin

  • Paperback
  • 202 pages
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

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Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream American experiences. In mainstream American society, aging is presented as a "problem," a state to be avoided as long as possible, a state that threatens one's ability to maintain independence, autonomy, control over one's surroundings. Aging "well" (or avoiding aging) has become a twenty-first century American preoccupation. Embracing Age provides a window into the everyday lives of American Catholic nuns who experience longevity and remarkable health and well-being at the end of life. Catholic nuns aren't only healthier in older age, they are healthier because they practice a culture of acceptance and grace around aging. Embracing Age demonstrates how aging in the convent becomes understood by the nuns to be a natural part of the life course, not one to be feared or avoided. Anna I. Corwin shows readers how Catholic nuns create a cultural community that provides a model for how to grow old, decline, and die that is both embedded in American culture and quite distinct from other American models. __Instructor's Guide is available at no cost (https: //d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/26120146/corwin_instructor_guide_final.pdf).__Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

  • Title

    Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well

  • Author

    Anna I Corwin

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Rutgers University Press

  • Published

    August 2021

  • Weight

    296g

  • Page Count

    202

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781978822276

  • ISBN-10

    1978822278

  • Eden Code

    5314437

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