Title:	Exploring Aging Masculinities
Authors:	David Jackson
Keywords:	Aging Great Britain
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	In an article I wrote for the Auto/Biography journal called, ‘Beyond one-dimensional models of masculinity: A life-course perspective on the processes of becoming masculine’ (2003), I talk about the histori- cally unique, social space (between retirement and death) that is slowly emerging in the lives of older men. I also suggest that this unique, social space might prove to be a creative space for re-thinking old age together with a critical re-assessment and possible re-formulation of conventional, masculine identities. In some ways, this is what I have tried to do in this book. At the age of 75 I have started to connect old age studies with the critical men and masculinity field. As one reviewer commented, ‘There has been insufficient attention devoted to the intersection between aging and masculinity in both the gerontological and the masculinity academic literature and this book addresses the gap.’ The form of research methodology that I have chosen for this investi- gation – a qualitative, ‘intimate conversation’ type of research process – is a deliberately appropriate form of research to use with aging men. The extended interview processes keeps pace with the daily rhythms and deepening ages of the research participants. In writing this book I have also become aware of a new, reading public, particularly in the 50+ section of the population. There is a broader, more diverse reading public now taking shape out there who are thoughtful and curious and want to make sense of their changing lives. This emerging group are not just younger academics but older women and men who want to engage with the dilemmas and oppor- tunities of the aging process. I very much hope this book reaches out to these new voices in reading groups as well as in Higher Education.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54156
ISBN:	978–1–137–52757–8
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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