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Anna I. Corwin is interviewed by H. Keziah Conrad about her book,</font><br>
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<div class="sp__the-description" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i
style="box-sizing: border-box;">Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns
Became Models of Aging Well.<br>
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</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">You can find the
interview here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://campanthropology.org">https://campanthropology.org</a><br>
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Best,<br>
Ilana</span><span></span></div>
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</font>Press blurb:<br>
<div class="sp__the-description" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i
style="box-sizing: border-box;">Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns
Became Models of Aging Well</i><span> </span>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.<span> </span><i style="box-sizing:
border-box;">Embracing Age</i><span> </span>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.<span> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Embracing
Age<span> </span></i>demonstrates 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.</div>
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