Gender and Ageing Changing Roles & Relationships by Sara Arber

The book contains orginal chapters from eminent writers on gender and ageing, addressing newly emergent areas within gender and ageing, including gender identity and masculinity in later life. Early work on gender and ageing was dominated by a focus on older women. The present collection breaks with this tradition by emphasizing changing gender roles and relationships, gender identity and an examination of masculinities in midlife and later life. Written with undergraduate students and researchers in mind, Gender & Ageing will be an invaluable text for those studying social gerontology, sociology of later life, gender studies, health and community care and social policy.

Contents

• Changing approaches to gender and later life
• Theorizing gender and age relations
• what of men and masculinities?
• Changing perspectives on age, gender and life after work
• Reconceptualizing intimacy and ageing
• living apart together
• Sex and ageing a gendered issue
• Bringing outsiders in gay and lesbian family ties over the life course
• Reconceptualizing gender and partnership status integrating socio-economic position and social involvement
• Gender, partnership status and pension poverty
• Getting by without a spouse
• living arrangements and support of older people in Italy and Britain
• Social networks and social well-being of older men and women living alone
• Exploring the social worlds and health behaviours of older men
• Sleep as a social act a window onto gender roles and relationships
• Reconceptualizing gender and ageing drawing the threads together