Intersections of ageing, gender, sexualities : Multidisciplinary international perspectives

Andrew King, Kathryn Almack

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447354710
• Subtopic: Marriage & Family Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

"With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to understand how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. Gender and sexuality are recognised as key factors in determining a person's experience of later life but little research has been done into how age, gender and sexualities work together and with other divisions, including ethnicity and class, to form a range of inequalities and opportunities for people as they age.The collection brings together an international group of researchers and writers from Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA, who argue for multiple, complex contextualised and spatialized approaches to understanding intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities and uneven outcomes in later life. The book highlights new ways of engaging with and thinking through questions related to ageing, gender and sexualities."

Table of contents

• INTERSECTIONS OF AGEING, GENDER AND SEXUALITIES
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors
• Foreword
• Series editors’ preface
• 1. Introduction: intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities
• Part 1. Theoretical interpolations
• Part 1: introduction
• 2. On the intersections of age, gender and sexualities in research on ageing
• 3. The queer subject of ‘getting on’
• 4. Transgender ageing: community resistance and well-being in the life course
• Part 2. Representations
• Part 2: introduction
• 5. Endogenous misery: menopause in medicine, literature and culture
• 6. Representations of female ageing and sexuality in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Angela Carter’s Wise Children and Doris Lessing’s ‘The grandmothers’
• 7. ‘Last-minute mothers’: the construction of age and midlife motherhood in Denmark and Israel
• Part 3. Dis/empowerments
• Part 3: introduction
• 8. All change please: education, mobility and habitus dislocation
• 9. Insider or outsider? Issues of power and habitus during life history interviews with menopausal Iranian women
• 10. Sexual expression and sexual practices in long-term residential facilities for older people
• 11. Sexual and gender diversity, ageing and elder care in South Africa: voices and realities
• Part 4. Health and well-being
• Part 4: introduction
• 12. Health and well-being of lesbians, gay men and bisexual people in later life: examining the commonalities and differences from quantitative research
• 13. Questioning the sexy oldie: masculinity, age and sexuality in the Viagra era
• Intersecting identities of age, gender and sexual orientation in gay and bisexual men’s narratives of 14. prostate cancer
• Index