Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities

Andrew King is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey where he is also Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender.Kathryn Almack is Professor of Health and Family Lives at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research has included a focus on LGBT older people, ageing and end of life care.Rebecca Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Health at The Open University. She researches ageing, sexuality across the life course and especially sexuality in later life.

• Foreword ~ 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 BarryRepresentations 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.