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دانشگاه تهران

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Aging can be studied from different theoretical perspectives. In this article, by adopting the approach of cultural gerontology, the author provides an explanation of aging in feminist, intersectional and postmodern theories with the aim of promoting conceptual and theoretical knowledge in aging studies. Cultural, feminist, and postmodern gerontology show the diversity, multiplicity, and complexities of the aging experience, and by adopting such an approach in aging studies, it is possible to understand the voices, narratives, and lived experience of diverse, vulnerable, and marginalized groups of the elderly. These approaches narrativize a fluid, plural and multiple aging. The experience of old age in Iranian society also narrates heterogeneous, unequal and multiple experiences, which rejects a uniform and uniform old age in Iranian society, explaining it as a social and unequal phenomenon. Aging is not only based on gender differences appearing as a multiple experience, but it is also experienced differently and unequally in the intersection of gender with other social components such as class position, health status, and ethnic and cultural differences; in such a way that it can produce double deprivation, inequality and inferiority. It is very important and necessary to consider these social differences and inequalities in the analysis of the issue of aging. The conceptual and theoretical insight produced in this area can dramatically help social policies of aging.

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