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Studies Of ageing masculinities
— still in their infancy? | | Author(s) | Anna Tarrant, Jacqueline H Watts |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA; Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies (CABS), Open University |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA, London, 2014 |
| Pages | 87 pp (The representation of older people in ageing research series, no 14) |
| Source | Central Books, 50 Freshwater Road, Chadwell Heath, Dagenham, RM8 1RX. |
| Keywords | Older men ; Research ; Methodology ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | The papers in this collection focus on some of the pioneering theoretical and methodological work that is contributing to the development of a research agenda that seeks to draw attention to, and enhance our understandings of, the complexities of the lives of older and ageing men. Four of the papers are revisions of those first presented at a seminar organised by the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA) and Open University Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies (CABS). The seminar aimed to bring together scholars and interested parties from different universities and sectors, career stages, and disciplines to explore and examine how the study of men's experiences of ageing as men has progressed in recent years. Kate Davidson explores social networks of older divorced and never married men, by reference to qualitative and quantitative research at the Centre for Research and Ageing and Gender (CRAG). Kate Bennett provides insight into how older widowers reconstruct their masculinity after bereavement. Anna Tarrant reflects on the role of the body in grandfathers' practices with their grandchildren. At the seminar, Paul Simpson had talked about how middle-aged gay men (late 30s to early 60s) in Manchester respond to growing older and (gay) ageism. His presentation is replaced by a paper by David Jackson, who critically argues for methodological and theoretical innovation in the study of older men's lives; he also advocates autobiographical methods and biographical enquiry as ways of engaging older men in such research. In 'The impotence of earnestness and the importance of being earnest: recruiting older men for interview', Robin Hadley explores some of the challenges he has faced in finding and recruiting older men who were willing to talk about their involuntary childlessness. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-150623012 B |
| Classmark | BC: 3A: 3D: 6M |
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