Intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities : : multidisciplinary international perspectives / / edited by Andrew King, Kathryn Almack and Rebecca L. Jones.
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.
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| Superior document: | Ageing in a global context |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ageing in a global context.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022). |
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Table of 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.