{"product_id":"embracing-age-how-catholic-nuns-became-models-of-aging-well-9781978822276","title":"Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anna I. Corwin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Life Stages - Later Years\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmbracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eEmbracing Age\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eEmbracing Age \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstructor's Guide is available at no cost (https: \/\/d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/26120146\/corwin_instructor_guide_final.pdf).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOpen access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\/ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDownload open access ebook here. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46915834445975,"sku":"9781978822276","price":2198.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781978822276.webp?v=1771256913","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/embracing-age-how-catholic-nuns-became-models-of-aging-well-9781978822276","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}