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Intersections of ageing, gender, and sexualities : multidisciplinary international perspectives /
With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to understand how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. Gender and sexuality are recognised as key factors in determining a person's experience of later life but little research has been done into how age, gender and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Ageing in a global context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; 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
- 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 IsraelIntroduction; 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 womenIntroduction; 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
- Gender and heterosexual spousal caregivingSame-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