Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities: Multidisciplinary International Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Andrew King (editor); Kathryn Almack (editor); Rebecca L. Jones (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. 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. It draws on theory and empirical data to provide both conceptual knowledge and clear ‘real-world’ illustrations. The book includes section introductions to guide the reader through the debates and ideas and a glossary offering clear definitions of key terms and concepts.

✦ 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
Introduction
Taking intersectionality and multi-disciplinarity seriously
Key themes of the book
Structure of the book
Significance
Part 1. Theoretical interpolations
Part 1: introduction
2. On the intersections of age, gender and sexualities in research on ageing
Intersectionality
An intersectional lens to ageing
Age relations
Gender relations
Relations of sexual inequality
Gender and heterosexual spousal caregiving
Same-sex partner caregiving
Age and partner caregiving
A heuristic model
Conclusion
3. The queer subject of ‘getting on’
Introduction
Theoretical overview
Queer families
Queer cares
Queer spaces of academia
Conclusion
4. Transgender ageing: community resistance and well-being in the life course
Introduction
Trans ageing: empirical landscape
Trans ageing: theoretical perspectives
The Swedish study
The US study
Trans resistance and well-being in the life course
Part 2. Representations
Part 2: introduction
5. Endogenous misery: menopause in medicine, literature and culture
‘It is probably that’: Virginia Woolf and menopause as disease
Germaine Greer reading Simone de Beauvoir: ageing is not dying
The Wilsons and menopause as endogenous misery
Conclusion
6. Representations of female ageing and sexuality in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Angela Carter’s Wise Children and Doris Lessing’s ‘The grandmothers’
Introduction
From the asexual old woman to the ‘sexy oldie’
Fictionalising female sexuality in later life
Lively’s historian, Carter’s sisters and Lessing’s grandmothers
Conclusion
7. ‘Last-minute mothers’: the construction of age and midlife motherhood in Denmark and Israel
Introduction
Theoretical and contextual background
Methodology and analysis
A mother or a grandmother? Keeping fit and staying young
Conclusion
Part 3. Dis/empowerments
Part 3: introduction
8. All change please: education, mobility and habitus dislocation
Introduction
Methodology
Education, education, education
A material world: intersections of gender and class in employment
Theorising class identity: ‘upward’ mobility and habitus dislocation
Conclusion
9. Insider or outsider? Issues of power and habitus during life history interviews with menopausal Iranian women
Introduction
Biographical research and methodology
Researcher’s social status: reflexivity and power, Bourdieusian perspective and intersectionality
Applying Bourdieu’s practice theory
Conclusion
10. Sexual expression and sexual practices in long-term residential facilities for older people
Introduction
Sexual expression in LTC institutions
Diversity and expression of sexual interests in residential settings
Conclusion and practical implications
11. Sexual and gender diversity, ageing and elder care in South Africa: voices and realities
South African realities
(South) African worldviews and experiences of ageing
LGBTI ageing in South Africa
Conversations on LGBTI ageing and care
Conclusion
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
Introduction
Research on the health and well-being of LGB people
Intersectionality, LGB older people and quantitative research
Commonalities and differences across intersecting LGB older people categories
Implications
Conclusion
13. Questioning the sexy oldie: masculinity, age and sexuality in the Viagra era
Introduction
‘Positive ageing’ and the Viagra revolution
Italian context
Methodology
Age matters: in search of the legitimate patient
Boundary making: between biological and biographical timings
Whose ageless sex? The coupledom imperative
Discussion and conclusion
Intersecting identities of age, gender and sexual orientation in gay and bisexual men’s narratives of 14. prostate cancer
Intersectionality and health
Age and ageing in the lives of gay and bisexual men
Gender and hegemonic masculinity
Sexual orientation
Methodology
Gay and bisexual men’s embodied sense of self
Managing the emotional roller-coaster of prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment
Intimate and sexual relationships following prostate cancer
Discussion
Index