[Linganth] Anna Corwin on Embracing Aging

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Anna I. Corwin is interviewed by H. Keziah Conrad about her book,

/Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well.


/You can find the interview here: https://campanthropology.org 
<https://campanthropology.org>

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:
/Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well/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./Embracing Age/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./Embracing Age/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.
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