Men, Masculinities, and Aging: The Gendered Lives of Older Men

Abstract

Men, Masculinities, and Aging explores the intersections of generations, class, geographies, and masculinities. It offers a fresh perspective on men's experiences with bodily aging, growing older within ageist societies, and navigating the virtual absence of cultural guidelines for being an old man--back cover. I. Masculinities and Aging : 1. Masculinities -- 2. Negotiating Age Relations and Aging -- 3. Aging Bodies: Our Corporeality -- 4. Bodies, Habitus, and Age -- II. Health as Men Age : 5. Wrestling with Aging -- 6. Health Inequalities -- 7. Sexual Health -- III. Social Worlds of Old Men : 8. Social Relationships -- 9. Intimacies and Sexuality -- 10. Caring -- 11. Facing Later Life as an Old Widower -- 12. Late Life and Its Fourth Age Culture -- Epilogue.