Intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities : multidisciplinary international perspectives / edited by Andrew King, Kathryn Almack and Rebecca L. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Andrew, 1968 September 15- editor.

Almack, Kathryn, editor.

Jones, Rebecca L., editor.

Series:

Ageing in a global context.

Ageing in a global context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging.

Gender identity.

Sexual orientation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9781447335290

1447335295

9781447333043

1447333047

9781447354710

1447354710

9781447333036

1447333039

OCLC:

1231954965