No country for old age : America's war on aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley / Mischa Honeck.
| Author/creator |
Honeck, Mischa, 1976- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025] |
| Description | xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Portion of title | America's war on aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley |
| Contents | Prologue: To Begin the World Over Again -- Phoenix Rising: New Lives in the New Nation -- Young America: From Water Cures to the Wide Awakes -- Far Away, Back in Time: The Rise of Imperial Recreation -- Beauty from Trees: The Colonial Roots of American Cosmetics -- Renewing the Race: Sex, Demography, and Democracy between the Wars -- Boy Nations: Rejuvenating Defeated Germany and Japan -- Wipe the Slate Clean: The Countercultural Rebellion -- Exercising for the New Age: Building Neoliberal Bodies -- Transhuman: Rejuvenation's Final Frontier. |
| Abstract | "Since the birth of their nation, Americans have acted on the belief that theirs was a land of youth, a place destined to offer a fresh start to an aging world. No Country for Old Age tells this story from the founding period to our present moment, but not without exposing its darker side: rejuvenation has often bred grand expectations before ending in division and despair. Mischa Honeck reveals how Americans of diverse backgrounds have sought not only to feel and look younger but also to breathe new life into their communities. Whether marching under the banners of science, public health, sexual liberation, physical fitness, nation-building, or world peace, these youth seekers have tended to paint their ventures in utopian colors. However, from the founders to today's Silicon Valley elites, anti-aging ventures have repeatedly magnified social inequalities, often projecting visions of society that were unmistakably classist, racist, misogynist, and ageist. Today we are experiencing rejuvenation's Janus-faced legacy: as transhumanists rhapsodize about cyber-enhancing human bodies, ghastly pandemics, old-age poverty, and shrinking life expectancies are poised to become the new normal for many twenty-first-century Americans"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024034314 |
| ISBN | 9781469680965 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469680963 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469680972 paperback |
| ISBN | 1469680971 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | New Books | E169.1 .H7628 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |