Andrew King & Kathryn Almack 
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities [EPUB ebook] 
Multidisciplinary International Perspectives

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 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.

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.