Contents

pp iii-iv

Acknowledgements

pp v-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xiv

Series editors’ preface

pp xv-xvi

one - Introduction: intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities

pp 1-8

Part 1 - Theoretical interpolations

pp 9-10

Introduction

pp 11-12

two - On the intersections of age, gender and sexualities in research on ageing

pp 13-30

three - The queer subject of ‘getting on’

pp 31-46

four - Transgender ageing: community resistance and well-being in the life course

pp 47-62

Part 2 - Representations

pp 63-64

Introduction

pp 65-66

five - Endogenous misery: menopause in medicine,literature and culture

pp 67-82

six - Representations of female ageing and sexuality in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Angela Carter’s Wise Children and Doris Lessing’s ‘The grandmothers’

pp 83-98

seven - ‘Last-minute mothers’: the construction of age and midlife motherhood in Denmark and Israel

pp 99-114

Part 3 - Dis/empowerments

pp 115-116

Introduction

pp 117-118

eight - All change please: education, mobility and habitus dislocation

pp 119-136

nine - Insider or outsider? Issues of power and habitus during life history interviews with menopausal Iranian women

pp 137-152

ten - Sexual expression and sexual practices in long-term residential facilities for older people

pp 153-170

eleven - Sexual and gender diversity, ageing and elder care in South Africa: voices and realities

pp 171-186

Part 4 - Health and well-being

pp 187-188

Introduction

pp 189-190

twelve - Health and well-being of lesbians, gay men and bisexual people in later life: examining the commonalities and differences from quantitative research

pp 191-208

thirteen - Questioning the sexy oldie: masculinity, age and sexuality in the Viagra era

pp 209-222

fourteen - Intersecting identities of age, gender and sexual orientation in gay and bisexual men’s narratives of prostate cancer

pp 223-240

Index

pp 241-246