Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime : Health, Illness and Disease Across the Life Course.
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 di...
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2019.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Embodying the gender regime: Health, illness and disease across the life course; Introduction; The life course as a structuring device for gendered health inequalities; Ages, stages and health inequalities; Gender and the gender regime; Age and the age system; Corporeality, illness and the social: embodying gender; The chapters in this book; Note; References; 1. Embodying gender in the everyday: Exploring space, body-scrutiny and safety; Introduction: youth, gender, and health inequalities
- Gender-based violence on the global agendaPoor mental health is patterned by gender relations; Embodied approaches to understand youth, gender and health; 'Gender in the everyday': exploring embodied negotiations of risk and safety on a university campus; Shrinking the self for the classroom space; Performing femininity; Bodily distress and mental health; Uplifting effects of relational enquiry; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2. Unscrambling risk, contesting expertise: The case of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine; Introduction
- The HPV vaccine: contest, conflict and competing claimsDefining the contours of the risk society; Interrogating risk: non-knowledge, trust and uncertainty; Notes; References; 3. Bodies and boundaries in three generations; Bodies in time and place; A three-generational study; (Female) bodies and (male) sexuality; Sexualising the body; Gendering bodies and degendering sexuality; The body project in a psychosocial and generational perspective; The 'fourth generation': the body project between increased sexualisation and escalating infantilisation?; Notes; References
- 4. Contested chronic conditions fused with medical uncertainty: Gendered perspectivesIntroduction; Theoretical background: context, concepts and perspectives; The 'male' disorder that became a 'female' disorder; Aetiological assumptions: beyond theoretical interest; The case of Nanette Leroux; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 5. Reclaiming menopause; Introduction; Suffering and loss; Rebirth; Un-shaming menopausal symptoms; Reclaiming menopause; Acknowledgements; References; 6. Beyond lipstick and woodwork: Why gender matters when living with dementia; Introduction
- Key theory and the role of genderRecognising dementia, sustaining self; Talk and body talk; Making decisions, having a say; Conclusions; References; 7. 'Men are not women': Biomedicine and the (hetero)sexing of ageing bodies; Romancing successful ageing; Diagnosing discontents; 'Men are not women': differentiating the 'ageing male'; Meanwhile, back at the lab: heterosexualising difference; (Hetero) sex as health; Conclusions; References; 8. Toward an intersectional approach to health in later life: Incorporating age relations; An intersectional approach
Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime : Health, Illness and Disease Across the Life Course. 
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