1st Edition

Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime Health, Illness and Disease Across the Life Course

Edited By Susan Pickard, Jude Robinson Copyright 2020
202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The current (postfeminist) gender order comprises a highly complex coexistence of old and new norms and expectations, freedom and constraints, within a neoliberal social order underpinned by individualism and involving a shift in gender performance by men and women. Health, illness and disease at different points in the life course can be used as a vehicle to illuminate structural and... Read more

Introduction  1. Embodying gender in the everyday: exploring space, body-scrutiny and safety  2. Unscrambling Risk, Contesting Expertise: The Case of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine  3. Bodies and boundaries in three generations  4. Contested chronic conditions fused with medical uncertainty: gendered perspectives  5. Reclaiming Menopause  6. Beyond lipstick and woodwork. Why gender matters when living with dementia.  7. “MEN ARE NOT WOMEN”:  BIOMEDICINE AND THE (HETERO)SEXING OF AGEING BODIES  8. Toward an Intersectional Approach to Health in Later Life: Incorporating Age Relations  9. Reproducing gender and smoking   10. Femininity and frailty through the life course

Biography

Susan Pickard is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Soociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool.





Jude Robinson is Professor in Health and Well-being at the Institute of Health and Well-being Social Sciences, University of Glasgow.