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Exploring Aging Masculinities: The Body, Sexuality and Social Lives
D. Jackson
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Description for Exploring Aging Masculinities: The Body, Sexuality and Social Lives
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFSJ2; JFSP31; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137527561
SKU
V9781137527561
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Ref
99-15
About D. Jackson
David Jackson is an independent researcher and a member of the Nottingham Pensioners' Action Group. Over the last fifteen years he has focused on aging men's issues, and has set up aging men's groups and, with others, a memory work group. He has also written Unmasking Masculinity: A Critical Autobiography and Challenging Macho Values: Practical Ways of Working with Adolescent ... Read more
Reviews for Exploring Aging Masculinities: The Body, Sexuality and Social Lives
[This] book disrupts thinking and practice on men and masculinities, on age, class, gender and sexuality, and is important for policy and politics, for carers, professionals, and of course older people themselves and ourselves. - Jeff Hearn, Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; OErebro University, Sweden, and; University of Huddersfield, UK