The Introduction is a simple and accessible overview of the changing faces of theory and research over many decades. From politics to health, cyber-queers to queer families, the review essays in this volume cover all the important bases of GLB history and politics. It is a guide to the state of the art, and invaluable for scholars throughout the world' - Ken Plummer, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex and Editor of Sexualities `This book is unique in lesbian and gay studies. This volume brings together key authors in the field in 26 major essays and provides a clear sense of just how much has been achieved. Member National Women's Studies Association.`The creation of a new field of lesbian and gay studies over the past thirty years has been a fascinating project.
The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (Revolutionary Thought and Radical Movements).Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and AgingĪ third edition of this textbook is now available.(What people said about the first edition of Fierce with R.) Cruikshank, Margaret ( AUTHOR ) Aug-15-2006 Paperback This will be a must-read for everyone interested in new ideas surrounding aging in America today. Cruikshank impressively challenges conventional ideas about aging in this third edition of Key updates in the third edition include changes in the health care system, changes in how long older Americans are working especially given the impact of the recession, and new material on the brain and mind-body interconnections. Cruikshank is able to put aging in a broad context that not only focuses on how aging affects women but men, as well. Among texts on aging the book is unique in its clear focus on the differences in aging for women and men, as well as for people in different socioeconomic groups. In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives to the ways aging is usually understood in both popular culture and mainstream gerontology.ĭoes not propose the ideas of “successful aging” or “productive aging,” but more the idea of “learning” how to age.įeaturing new research and analysis, the third edition ofĭemonstrates, more thoroughly than the previous editions, that aging is socially constructed.
The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and AgingĮxamines what it means to grow old in America today.
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