Extraordinary Forms of Aging: Life Narratives of Centenarians and Children with Progeria

Cover\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\nI. Aging Studies amid the Cultural, Social, and Biological\n	1 Theories of Age(ing)\n		1.1 The Beginnings of Social Gerontology: The Biological and the Social\n		1.2 Social and Cultural Impacts on the Aging Process\n		1.3 The Subcategories of Age\n		1.4 Extraordinary Forms of Aging\n		1.5 Extraordinary Age(ing) and Life Writing\nII. Centenarians—The Stars of Aging\n	2 “I feel glorious”: The 100th Birthday of Macklemore’s Grandmother\n		2.1 New Beginnings: Rereading “Glorious” in Terms of Aging Studies\n		2.2 “I wanna do it all”: Extraordinary ‘Old’ Age and Extraordinary ‘Young’ Behavior\n		2.3 Centenarianism and the Aging Body in the Realms of a Hip-Hop Video\n		2.4 “Glorious” and the Portrayal of Extraordinary ‘Old’ Age\n	3 The Normality of Being a Centenarian: A Day in the Life of Aldéa Pellerin-Cormier\n		3.1 Music, Setting, Camera: How the Documentary ‘Makes’ the Centenarian\n		3.2 Passing on Knowledge: The Centenarian’s Wisdom\n		3.3 Femininity, Sex, and Gender in Extraordinary ‘Old’ Age\n		3.4 Aging, Place, and Questions of Ability: (In)Dependence in Extraordinary ‘Old’ Age\n		3.5 Aldéa Pellerin-Cormier and the Normality of Centenarianism\n	4 Extraordinary ‘Old’ Age and (Auto)Biography: George Dawson’s Life is So Good! at the Intersection of Age(ing), Race, and Class\n		4.1 Co-Authorship, Vulnerability, and the Art of Age (Auto)biographies\n		4.2 Aging through the Life-Course: The Interconnectedness of Race, Class, and Age\n		4.3 Framing Extraordinary ‘Old’ Age: The Fabrication of George Dawson\n		4.4 African American Aging Through the Life-Course and the Fabrication of Centenarianism in Life is So Good!\n	5 Representations of Extraordinary ‘Old’ Age: Same, Same, but Different?\nIII. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome—Questioning Assumptions of Age(ing)\n	6 Sensationalizing Disease: “Living with Progeria: Born Different”\n		6.1 Adalia Rose: Progeria between Fragility and Empowerment\n		6.2 The Siblings with Progeria: Michiel and Amber Vandeweert\n		6.3 “Living with Progeria”: Illness as Phenomenon\n	7 Sam Berns: Progeria Between Clinical Trials and Lived Experience\n		7.1 Extraordinary Age in Life According to Sam\n		7.2 Progeria and Clinical Trials\n		7.3 A Philosophy for a Happy Life: Sam Berns’ TED Talk\n		7.4 Sam Berns as Commodity: Agency and Perspective in Life According to Sam\n		7.5 Framing Extraordinary Age(ing) in Life According to Sam\n	8 Framing Progeria in an (Auto)Biography: Hayley Okines’ Old Before My Time\n		8.1 Old Before My Time and Narrative Structure\n		8.2 Intertextual References and Conflicting Narratives: Clinical Trials and Connections to Other Children with Progeria\n		8.3 In Search for the Illness: Hayley’s Diagnosis\n		8.4 Hayley Okines and the Construction of Extraordinary Age(ing)\n		8.5 The Progeria Community: Illness and Care as a Common Effort\n		8.6 Old Before My Time and Progeria at the Intersection of the Cultural, Social, and Biological\n	9 Progeria Narratives at the intersection of Age(ing) and Illness\n	10 Conclusion\nBibliography