Body functionality describes everything that the body is able to do, across diverse domains
(eg, bodily senses, creative endeavours). Nearly a decade ago, leading scholars identified …

Let's face it: almost everyone fears growing older. We worry about losing our looks, our
health, our jobs, our self-esteem—and being supplanted in work and love by younger …

This article explores the convergence of consumer society and professional expertise in
reinventing notions of maturity, aging, lifecourse, and senior citizenry. As positive ideals of …

Discourses on old age and ageing are framed in narrow and binary ways, either as a
decline narrative or through discourses of positive and successful ageing. The decline …

Stephen Katz opens our eyes to the exhilarating possibilities for the aging experience. His
analytic lenses touch on issues of governmentality, identity, agency, embodiment, gender …

A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing
two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of …

Historically, male sexual fitness was framed by a patriarchal politics of life centred on
regeneration, population and nation. In the later 20th century, as successful ageing became …

Gerontologists, gray political activists, community workers, and policy makers predict that the
twenty-first century will be an era of unprecedented, positive aging. Their forecast is …

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_-('if the whole field of gerontology provides evidence of the importance that psychology and …

Discourse on male sexuality in mid‐to‐later life has exploded in recent years (Gullette
1998). Attention to this topic has been spurred by the advent of (highly profitable) …