Exploring Aging Masculinities

David Jackson is an independent researcher and a member of the Nottingham Pensioners' Action Group. Over the last fifteen years he has focused on aging men's issues, and has set up aging men's groups and, with others, a memory work group. He has also written Unmasking Masculinity: A Critical Autobiography and Challenging Macho Values: Practical Ways of Working with Adolescent Boys (with Jonathan Salisbury).

Foreword: Research with Older Men, Slowly; Jeff Hearn

1. Introduction

2. Research Methodology

3. Aging Men's Embodied Selves: Rethinking Aging Men's Relationships with Their Changing Bodies

4. An Historical and Cultural Analysis of Aging Men's Sexualities in the UK

5. Learning to Live with Parkinson's and an 'Unpredictable Body' as an Aging Man: An Investigation into Age, Masculine Identity and Disability

6. The Challenges and Opportunities of Aging Men's Spousal Caregiving in the UK

7. Learning the Hidden Skills of Staying Alive: How do Some Aging Working Class Men Survive the Processes of Aging?

8. Exploring Aging Men's Embodied and Social Agency in a Free Market Economy Context

9. Towards an Ambiguous, Bodily Fragmented Standpoint on Aging Men

"[This] book disrupts thinking and practice on men and masculinities, on age, class, gender and sexuality, and is important for policy and politics, for carers, professionals, and of course older people themselves and ourselves." - Jeff Hearn, Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; Örebro University, Sweden, and; University of Huddersfield, UK