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| Identity work among lesbian and gay elderly | | Author(s) | Dana Rosenfeld |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 13, no 2, Summer 1999 |
| Pages | pp 121-144 |
| Keywords | Sexual orientation ; Older men ; Older women ; Personality ; Social interaction ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Both traditional and interactionist sociologies ignore the intersection of history, generations and life course on the one hand and the local production of identity on the other. To document the local enactment and contestation of historically specific discourses that implicate and shape identity, the author analyses the identity work of 37 gay men and lesbians over the age of 65 living in the Los Angeles area. She focuses on the invocation and elaboration of competing discourses of homosexuality by subjects who identified as homosexual during different stages of life and different historical eras. She suggests that these "identity cohorts" are unique, unconsidered groups whose experience can shed light on the interplay between identity, generations and social change. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990728226 A |
| Classmark | ES6: BC: BD: DK: TMA: 7T |
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