Shame and Ageing in a Transforming World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shame and Ageing in a Transforming World write by Elisabeth Vanderheiden. This book was released on . Shame and Ageing in a Transforming World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
This Chair Rocks
This Chair Rocks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Chair Rocks write by Ashton Applewhite. This book was released on 2019-03-05. This Chair Rocks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride!
The Shame of It
The Shame of It - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shame of It write by Gubrium, Erika K.. This book was released on 2013-12-11. The Shame of It available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The shame experienced by people living in poverty has long been recognised. Nobel laureate and economist, Amartya Sen, has described shame as the irreducible core of poverty. However, little attention has been paid to the implications of this connection in the making and implementation of anti-poverty policies. This important volume rectifies this critical omission and demonstrates the need to take account of the psychological consequences of poverty for policy to be effective. Drawing on pioneering empirical research in countries as diverse as Britain, Uganda, Norway, Pakistan, India, South Korea and China, it outlines core principles that can aid policy makers in policy development. In so doing, it provides the foundation for a shift in policy learning on a global scale and bridges the traditional distinctions between North and South, and high-, middle- and low-income countries. This will help students, academics and policy makers better understand the reasons for the varying effectiveness of anti-poverty policies.
From Shame to Sin
From Shame to Sin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Shame to Sin write by Kyle Harper. This book was released on 2013-06-01. From Shame to Sin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.
Is Shame Necessary?
Is Shame Necessary? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Is Shame Necessary? write by Jennifer Jacquet. This book was released on 2016-01-12. Is Shame Necessary? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform. “[Jacquet] exposes the ways shame plays into collective ideas of punishment and reward, and the social mechanisms that dictate the ways we dictate our behavior.” —The Boston Globe Examining how we can retrofit the art of shaming for the age of social media, Jennifer Jacquet shows that we can challenge corporations and even governments to change policies and behaviors that are detrimental to the environment. Urgent and illuminating, Is Shame Necessary? offers an entirely new understanding of how shame, when applied in the right way and at the right time, has the capacity to keep us from failing our planet and, ultimately, from failing ourselves.
