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Health, Illness and Disease Across the Life Course
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
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Intersectionality in research on health in later life
Susan Pickard is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Soociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. Jude Robinson is Professor in Health and Well-being at the Institute of Health and Well-being Social Sciences, University of Glasgow.
Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime : Health, Illness and Disease Across the Life Course
Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness