Intersections of ageing, gender, and sexualities : multidisciplinary international perspectives / edited by Andrew King, Kathryn Almack and Rebecca L. Jones

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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 sexualities work together and with other divisions, including ethnicity and class, to form a range of inequalities and opportunities for people as they age. The collection brings together an international group of researchers and writers from Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA, who argue for multiple, complex contextualised and spatialized approaches to understanding intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities and uneven outcomes in later life. The book highlights new ways of engaging with and thinking through questions related to ageing, gender and sexualities