Men, Masculinities, and Aging - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men, Masculinities, and Aging write by Edward H. Thompson,. This book was released on 2018-09-18. Men, Masculinities, and Aging available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Men, Masculinities, and Aging introduces readers to the gendered nature of aging men’s lives. Edward H. Thompson, noted for his work on men and aging, explores the intersections of ethnicities, class, geographies, generations, and masculinities. The book offers a fresh perspective on men’s experiences with bodily aging, growing older in an ageist society, and navigating the virtual absence of cultural guidelines for being an aging man. The book also provides a sociological theory framework on how men navigate their social aging as they experience later life and very late life. Turning points such as grandfathering, the changeover from work to retirement, and the onset of health problems or becoming a career are discussed at length as Thompson frames these natural occurrences as now ordinary experiences as aging masculinities are no longer rarities. The book will provide educators, students, researchers, and practitioners a means to question standard assumptions about aging men and discuss what underlies most later-life masculinities.
Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine
Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine write by Antje Kampf. This book was released on 2013-05-07. Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of social science studies on men’s health and biotechnologies including anti-aging perspectives. This book discusses both healthy and diseased states of aging men in medical practices, bringing together theoretical and empirical conceptualisations. Divided into four parts it covers: Historical epistemology of aging, bodies and masculinity and the way in which the social sciences have theorised the aging body and gender. Material practices and processes by which biotechnology, medical assemblages and men’s aging bodies relate to concepts of health and illness. Aging experience and its impact upon male sexuality and identity. The importance of men’s roles and identities in care-giving situations and medical practices. Highlighting how aging men’s bodies serve as trajectories for understanding wider issues of masculinity, and the way in which men’s social status and men’s roles are made in medical cultures, this innovative volume offers a multidisciplinary dialogue between sociology of health and illness, anthropology of the body and gender studies.
Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction write by Josep M. Armengol. This book was released on 2021-07-26. Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including shifting perceptions of physical and sexual prowess, depression, and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, as well as new affective patterns. The collection also incorporates factors such as race, sexuality and religion. The volume includes studies, amongst others, on Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, and Edmund White. Ultimately, this study proves that men’s aging experiences as described in contemporary U.S. literature and culture are as complex and varied as those of their female counterparts.
Exploring Aging Masculinities
Exploring Aging Masculinities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Aging Masculinities write by D. Jackson. This book was released on 2016-05-31. Exploring Aging Masculinities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the lived, embodied experiences of aging men as a counterpoint to the weary stereotypes often imposed on them. Conventionally, in Western cultures, they are seen as inevitably in decline. The book challenges these distorted images through a detailed analysis of aging men's life stories.
Older Men′s Lives
Older Men′s Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Older Men′s Lives write by Edward H. Thompson. This book was released on 1994-06-07. Older Men′s Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive exploration on the subject of older men, Older Men′s Lives offers a multidisciplinary portrait of men and their concerns in later life. Using both a life-course and gendered perspective, the contributors to this collection of original articles point out that the image and self-image of men are continuously reconstructed over the life cycle. They examine older men′s position in society and the changes wrought in their status and roles over time. Their relationship with their spouses, children, grandchildren, and friends are also explored, as are policy implications of a gendered, life-cycle view of masculinity. This volume also discusses faith development in older men, masculinity identity from work to retirement, older men′s sexuality, and older men′s friendship patterns. Older Men′s Lives will be of interest to professionals and students interested in gender, men′s studies, gerontology, and sociology. "This book begins to remedy the lack of information and provides data and research on aging men. . . .The strength of this book is the specificity of its focus. By focusing solely on male concerns the book is able to identify issues in the male aging process and discuss them on their own terms rather than simply as a contrast to females." --Clinical Gerontologist
