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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsForeword ~ 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.
