Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities: Multidisciplinary International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781447343370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Andrew King; Kathryn Almack

Spis treści

Foreword ~ Sara Arber; Introduction: intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities ~ Andrew King, Kathryn Almack and Rebecca L. Jones; PART 1: Theoretical interpolations; Part Introduction; On the intersection of age, gender and sexualities in research on ageing ~ Toni Calasanti; The queer subject of ‘getting on’ ~ Yvette Taylor; Transgender ageing: community resistance and well-being in the life course ~ Vanessa Fabbre and Anna Siverskog; PART 2: Representations; Part Introduction; Endogenous misery: menopause in medicine, literature and culture ~ Elizabeth Barry Representations of female ageing and sexuality: Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Angela Carter’s Wise Children and Doris Lessing’s ‘The grandmothers’ ~ Maricel Oró Piqueras; ‘Last-minute mothers’: the construction of age and midlife motherhood in Denmark and Israel ~ Kinneret Lahad and Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen; PART 3: Dis/empowerments; Part Introduction; All change please: education, mobility and habitus dislocation ~ Jill Wilkens; Insider or outsider? Issues of power and habitus during life history interviews with menopausal Iranian women ~ Elham Amini; Sexual expression and sexual practices in long-term residential facilities for older people ~ Feliciano Villar; Sexual and gender diversity, ageing and elder care in South Africa: voices and realities ~ Finn Reygan and Jamil Khan; PART 4: Health and well-being; Part Introduction ; Health and well-being of lesbians, gay men and bisexual people in later life: examining the commonalities and differences from quantitative research ~ Mark Hughes; Questioning the sexy oldie: masculinity, age and sexuality in the Viagra era ~ Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto; Intersecting identities of age, gender and sexual orientation in gay and bisexual men’s narratives of prostate cancer ~ Julie Fish.