Masculinities at the Margins of “Middle Adulthood”

Bartholomaeus, Clare; Tarrant, Anna

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“…Where a focus on homogeneous categories used to exist, contemporary research emphasizes differences within categorizations like age, revealing also their relational nature. For instance, a growing number of studies explore the interaction between age, gender, and class (see McMullin and Cairney 2004;Zajicek et al 2007), age, gender, and race (Mair 2010), age, gender, and sexuality (Ambjörnsson and Jönsson 2010), and age and masculinity (Bartholomaeus and Tarrant 2016). Reviewing dominant ways of approaching intersectionality and reflecting upon their shortcomings, Walby et al (2012) proposed that an intersectional perspective encourages a language of inequalities and systems of inequalities.…”

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Multiple Marginalizations Based on Age: Gendered Ageism and Beyond

Krekula

Nikander

Wilińska

2018

International Perspectives on Aging

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Multiple Marginalizations Based on Age: Gendered Ageism and Beyond

Krekula

Nikander

Wilińska

2018

International Perspectives on Aging

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“…Berg & Longhurst, 2003) is given fresh insight when considered through the lens of rhythms. This focus on rhythms offers a less dualistic framing of men than those centred on bodily capacity and that, geographers have shown (Bartholomaeus & Tarrant, 2016), automatically present older men as subordinate, redundant, or inferior. The findings here suggest that micro‐scale slowing – such as the need for rest or through reduced physical capabilities – may be subsumed within wider rhythms of continued work (and associated traits of stoicism and endurance) and periods of busyness.…”

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“…RILEY | 421 2 | BACKGROUND: GEOGRAPHIES OF OLDER AGE, MASCULINITIES, AND TEMPORALITY While the notion of hegemonic masculinity (Connell, 1995) which focuses on the normative, ideal type of masculinity that is seen as hierarchical to all other masculine and feminine subjectivitieshas remained a key touchstone within geographical research, it is the deployment in its original formulation that has arguably obfuscated the discussion of older age masculinities. Simply seeing older age masculinities as subordinate to youthful masculinitiesin relation to issues such as bodily capacity or economic powerhas served to render older men less visible and to ignore the diversity of men's practices, positionings, and performances in older age (Bartholomaeus & Tarrant, 2016). More usefully, within their reformulation of the ideas of hegemonic masculinity, Connell and colleagues see masculinity not as a "fixed entity embedded in the body or personal traits of individuals" but as a "configuration of practice" that is accomplished in particular social contexts (Connell & Messerschmidt, 2005, p. 5).…”

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In the autumn of their lives: Exploring the geographies and rhythms of old[er] age masculinities

Riley

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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Using a novel longitudinal qualitative approach of revisiting older men across an elongated period, this paper addresses the lack of geographical attention given to older age masculinities specifically, and the limited exploration of the temporal aspects of masculinity more generally. Situated within debates around intersectional and relational approaches to masculinity and the critical geographies of ageing, the paper utilises insights from Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis to examine how older men (re)produce, organise, and improvise rhythms in using and experiencing places as they age. The paper shows how the notion of masculinities as relational is given fresh insight when considered through the lens of rhythms, offering a less dualistic framing of men than those centred on bodily capacity and that automatically present older men as subordinate, redundant, or inferior. The paper draws on in-depth, repeat, qualitative interviews across four phases in an 18-year period with 32 older men (over 65) in the UK. The analysis points to how changing rhythms as men age may be accommodated through, and subsumed within, wider rhythms of continued work, periods of busyness, and eurhythmia (accordance of rhythms) with those around them. Conversely, aspects of arrhythmia (dissonance or conflict of rhythms) that have previously been pointed to as marginalising may also offer older men a level of distinctionallowing, for example, a distancing from age-graded spaces and prevalent discourses of older age as well as enabling socially dominant masculine positions compared to others at the local level. The paper also points to how masculinities are not only relational to other people and places but also to natural and non-human rhythms and daily and seasonal contingencies as well as across time.ageing, farming, geographies of age, masculinities, rhythms | INTRODUCTIONThe recently burgeoning scholarship on the geographies of masculinities has served to highlight the complex and nuanced ways that masculinities are (re)constructed in relation to other entities, such as material places and artefacts, social norms, and particular geographical contexts (Gorman-Murray & Hopkins, 2016). Within this discussion, the spatialities of older

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“…Older men are frequent consumers of television (Van Der Goot et al , 2012), yet there are few studies focusing on their interpretation and response to images of ageing in this arena. While there is a burgeoning literature on ageing masculinities in the social sciences (Calasanti, 2004; Hearn, 2007; Bartholomaeus and Tarrant, 2016), there is relatively scant research in an Irish context. Through exploring older men's perceptions of cultural representations of ageing, this paper finds shifting masculine identities that negotiate hegemonic expectations as well as messages contained in discourses about ageing, modifying and broadening these discourses.…”

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‘In a hospital bed or … out doing Indiana Jones’: older Irish men's negotiations of cultural representations of ageing

O’Neill¹,

Léime²

2022

Ageing and Society

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There is a growing body of interdisciplinary literature on the representation and construction of ageing masculinities; however, there is a lack of specific analysis of older men's responses to cultural images of ageing. It is important to examine how cultural meanings around ageing may inform older men's lived experiences, an underexplored aspect of gender and social relations. This article does so and contributes to social gerontology and masculinity studies. It draws on focus group discussions and follow-up interviews or reflective diaries with seven men aged 65–73 years, varying in terms of relationship status and sexual orientation. The research forms part of an international study. It discusses the initial thematic findings, interpreted with reference to literature on ageing in culture and society, and hegemonic masculinities. The analysis identifies five primary themes: underrepresentation and stereotyping in media; diminishment of family role; transition from work to retirement; agency as opposed to confinement; and ageing as engaged and autonomous, illustrating some of the issues involved in the fluidity of masculinity over a lifetime. It highlights how representation can inform perceptions and experiences of growing older, and shows shifting masculine identities that negotiate hegemonic expectations as well as discourses about ageing. This study demonstrates how the participants’ modifications of hegemonic masculine and ageing identity interrogate and broaden these discourses, and opens avenues for future investigation.

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Masculinities at the Margins of “Middle Adulthood”

Cited by 31 publications

References 45 publications

Multiple Marginalizations Based on Age: Gendered Ageism and Beyond

Multiple Marginalizations Based on Age: Gendered Ageism and Beyond

In the autumn of their lives: Exploring the geographies and rhythms of old[er] age masculinities

‘In a hospital bed or … out doing Indiana Jones’: older Irish men's negotiations of cultural representations of ageing

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