Ageing men: intersections of health, age and gender

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva. Ageing men: intersections of health, age and gender. In BSA - British Sociological Association Medical Conference. 2023.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Ageing men: intersections of health, age and gender

Název česky

Stárnoucí muži: průsečík zdraví, věku a genderu

Autoři

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva

Vydání

BSA - British Sociological Association Medical Conference, 2023

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50401 Sociology

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

BSA Medical Sociology events archive

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova česky

muži a mužství; stárnutí; zdraví; gender

Klíčová slova anglicky

men and masculinities; ageing; health; gender

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

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Anotace

V originále

Men are often not named as a gendered category in research on ageing. Intersections of power/dominance and (absence of) care for own health form the core analytical axis in the paper. Its goal is to help us understand categories of age and gender in men´s narratives on health (performance, able-bodied-ness, achievement vs. illness, powerlessness). Critical approach to the process of gendered ageing, situated in the context of a post-socialist country - Czech Republic, aims to fill in gaps in topical research and enrich current international knowledge. The paper addresses the process of ageing as a reflected gendered practice in the dynamics of relations in later lives. Inequalities, marginalisation as well as relations of power of men as they age gets scrutinised together with caring and being cared for. Several social environments have been explored in the fieldwork; the paper elaborates the intersection of health, age and gender in detail on narratives of three specific groups of participants: homeless men, men in health-care professions and “balancing” men (attenders of workshops designed for men to “look back” on their life-courses). The paper is based on a current sociological research project Institutions of Aging Men (fieldwork and analysis ongoing) using face-to-face in-depth interviews with men in selected social environments as primary analytical source of data. Ongoing qualitative data analysis is based on feminist and critical studies on men and masculinities approaches

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Návaznosti

GA23-05047S, projekt VaV

Název: Instituce stárnoucích mužů Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Instituce stárnoucích mužů