Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities

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 Barry


Representations of female ageing and sexuality: Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger, Angela Carter's Wise Children and Doris Lessing's 'The grandmothers' ~ Maricel Oro 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.