Simone de Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age

The Humanities and Gerontology’s Diagram of Science

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  • Stephen Katz Trent University in Peterborough, Canada

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https://doi.org/10.7146/ageculturehumanities.v3i.130163

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Author Biography

Stephen Katz, Trent University in Peterborough, Canada

is Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Research Award recipient at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. He is author of books Disciplining Old Age (1996) and Cultural Aging (2005) and numerous publi- cations on aging bodies, technologies, critical gerontology, biopolitics, and cognitive impairment. Together with Barbara L. Marshall, he has co-authored publications on aging, pharmaceutical expertise, enhancement, sexuality and quantified aging. His current research is on the neuro-cultural aspects of aging memory and health technologies, and new book developments on Age, Mind and Body in Later Life and Ageing and Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments. Readers may contact the author at SKatz@Trentu.ca.

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2018-01-01

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Katz, S. “Simone De Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age: The Humanities and Gerontology’s Diagram of Science”. Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 3, Jan. 2018, pp. 217-26, doi:10.7146/ageculturehumanities.v3i.130163.

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