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Handbook of Cultural Gerontology who showed organisation, patience and kindness …

Since the 1970s, when Susan Sontag coined the term, discussions on the double standard
of ageing has continued to evolve. Recently, scholars of feminist gerontology have called for …

The focus upon the body in the social sciences has had a growing influence in recent years
on aging studies. Various terms have been used to explore the relationship between the …

Cultural gerontology has emerged in the last decade as one of the most lively and insightful
areas of academic analysis. Drawing together work across the humanities and social …

This paper extends discussions of the geographies of the body by examining hair as a
geographical lens that reimagines the body's borders. Hair is a key agent in producing and …

The facial width-to-height ratio (FWHR) influences social judgements like perceived
aggression. This may be because FWHR is a sexually dimorphic feature, with males having …

Abstract This article examines Roald Dahl's adult short story 'The Landlady'through the lens
of age studies and the horror genre. It explores how different symbolic and gothic textual …

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been traditionally charac-terised by
young population demographics but is currently experiencing fast transitions into ageing …

In this article I outline the influences, intellectual and personal, that have led me to the
subject of dress and age, a topic that I have explored with great enjoyment over the last …

Casual sexual encounters are closely wedded to leisure travel, and have received a lot of
attention in both theoretical and empirical work. However, the relationship between romance …