1st Edition

Growing Older Perspectives on LGBT Aging

Edited By James T. Sears Copyright 2010
252 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

LGBT older adults experience issues and challenges that are unique, including institutional heteronormativity, heterosexism in organizations, and homophobia among caregivers and social service providers. This book presents a diverse group of scholars, activists, social service providers, and researchers from around the globe examining current research, practices, and policies on aging among LGBT... Read more

1. Introduction: Queering Later Life  James T. Sears  2. Older Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Adults: Tools for Age-Competent and Gay Affirmative Practice  Catherine Crisp, Sherrill Wayland and Theresa Gordon  3. Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults  Steven David and Paul A. Cernin  4. Conducting Research Among Older Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults  Arnold H. Grossman  5. Conceptualizations of Family by Older Gay Men  Anna Muraco, Allen J. LeBlanc and Stephen T. Russell  6. Social Support as a Predictor of Psychological and Physical Well-Being and Lifestyle in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults Aged 50 and Over  Blase E. Masini and Hope A. Barrett  7. Aging with HIV: Historical and Intra-Community Differences in Experience of Aging with HIV  Wallace A. Robinson, Mary S. Petty, Cindy Patton and Helen Kang  8. Building Strength Through Challenging Homophobia: Liberation Workshops with Younger and Midlife Irish Lesbians  Geraldine Moane  9. Neither Silent nor Invisible: A Comparison of Two Participative Projects Involving Older Lesbians and Gay Men in the United Kingdom  Richard Ward, Lindsay River and Lee-Ann Fenge  10. Imagined Futures and Communities: Older Lesbian and Gay People’s Narratives on Health and Aged Care  Mark Hughes  11. Ageing Lesbians: Marginalising Discourses and Social Exclusion in the Aged Care Industry  Joy Phillips and Genée Marks

Biography

James T. Sears is Professor of Education at Penn State University and specializes in sexuality issues in curriculum studies and U.S. history. He edits the Journal of LGBT Youth and has been a Research Fellow at the Center for Feminist Studies at the University of Southern California, a Fulbright Senior Research Southeast Asia Scholar, a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a consultant for the J. Paul Getty Center for Education and the Arts. His biography is included in the Dictionary of International Biography, Who’s Who in American Education, Contemporary Authors, and Who's Who in America.