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Materialities of Age and Ageing: Concepts of a Material Gerontology
In gerontological research the understanding of age and ageing changed in the last decade. Biologic determined explanations no longer prevail in this research field. Instead, ideas of social constructivism are frequently used. These ideas define the state of age and the process of ageing as social constructions, steeping ageing in social and cultural assumptions, ascriptions, and expectations. From a social constructivist perspective, age and ageing are not (just) identified as dependency, deficit, and need for care – as it was foremost accelerated from a biological perspective – but with the life course and thus with individual lifestyles, experiences, attitudes and practices, as well a...
Mattering
Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary feminist perspectives on the materialist or ‘naturalizing’ turn in feminist theory, and also represents the newest wave of feminist engagement with science. The volume addresses the relationship between human corporeality and subjectivity, questions and redefines the boundaries of human/non-human and nature/culture, elaborates on the entanglements of matter, knowledge, and practice, and addresses bi...
Conversations on Embodiment Across Higher Education
"Embodiment" is a concept that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. However, it is a contested term, and the literature is fragmented, particularly within Higher Education. This has resulted in silos of work that are not easily able to draw on previous or related knowledge in order to support and progress understanding. Conversations on Embodiment Across Higher Education brings a cohesive understanding to congruent approaches by drawing on discussions between academics to explore how they have used embodiment in their work. This book brings academics from fields including dance, drama, education, anthropology, early years, sport, sociology and philosophy together, to begin conversati...
Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance
What is happening to gender studies and gender research as emerging but contested fields of scientific knowledge in the conditions of the new academic governance? And which role do gender studies and gender research play in the current transformations in academia? All articles in this book make clear that the impacts of the new academic governance have global, glocal and local dimensions which have to be taken into account in analysing the state of gender studies and gender research at the end of the 2010s. From diverse geopolitical and sociocultural views the authors simultaneously draw a multifaceted picture of the current situation, criticise the widespread tendencies of the marketisation...
Gerontologie kompakt
Für eine professionelle Pflege und sozialarbeiterische Betreuung alter Menschen sind gründliche Kenntnisse der Gerontologie, der Sozialen Arbeit sowie der Pflegewissenschaft notwendig. Das erfahrene Herausgeber*innen- und Autor*innenteam klärt Grundkonzepte von Altern, Pflege sowie Sozialer Arbeit und beschreibt Grundlegendes zu den Themen Nächstenliebe, ethische Entscheidungsfindung sowie zu pflegepolitischen Akteuren und Handlungsfeldern entwirft die Idee einer fachlich angemessenen, ethisch verantwortbaren, person-zentrierten und gesellschaftlich unterstützten guten Pflege alter Menschen, die sich den Bedürfnissen der Betroffenen verpflichtet fühlt skizziert interdisziplinäre AnsÃ...
Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain
This book challenges law’s reliance on neurology’s brain-sex binary. The brain has become the latest candidate in a historical search for a reliable and fixed biological marker of ‘true sex’ that has permeated every aspect of Western culture, including law. As definitions of the sexed and gendered body have become ever more contentious, the development and dissemination of brain-sex theories have come to dominate popular understanding of LGBTI+ identities. But, this book argues, the brain is no more helpful than earlier biological measures in ensuring just outcomes. Examining how law determines and differentiates ‘male’ and ‘female’ in two contested areas of sexed identity â€...
Breathing Matters
Breathing is not a common subject in feminist studies. Breathing Matters introduces this phenomenon as a forceful potentiality for feminist intersec-tional theories, politics, and social and environmental justice. By analyzing the material and discursive as well as the natural and cultural enactments of breath in black lung disease, phone sex work, and anxieties and panic attacks, Breathing Matters proposes a nonuniver salizing and politicized understanding of embodiment. In this approach, human bodies are conceptualized as agential actors of intersectional poli-tics. Magdalena Górska argues that struggles for breath and for breathable lives are matters of differential forms of political pr...
Assisted Reproduction Across Borders
Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to Assisted Reproduction Across Borders argue against normalization as an uncontested overall trend. This volume reflects on the state of the art of ARTs. From feminist perspectives, the contributors focus on contemporary political debates triggered by ARTs. They examine the varying ways in which ARTs are interpreted and practised in different contexts, depending on religious, moral and political app...
Handbuch Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung
Das Handbuch bietet einen systematischen Überblick über den Stand der Geschlechterforschung. Disziplinäre und interdisziplinäre Zugänge werden verknüpft und vielfältige Sichtweisen auf das Forschungsfeld eröffnet. Die Beiträge der Geschlechterforscher_innen aus unterschiedlichen Fachdisziplinen spannen die Breite des Forschungs- und Wissenschaftsfeldes auf. Hierdurch werden die Debatten, Analysen und Entwicklungen der deutschsprachigen und internationalen Geschlechterforschung deutlich. Das Handbuch Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung ist in sieben Schwerpunkte gegliedert und besonders in Lehre und Forschung einsetzbar. Herausgegeben von Dr. Beate Kortendiek ist Leiterin der Ko...
Alt und schön
Derzeit medial vermittelte Parolen bekannter Körperpflegehersteller sind eindeutig: Schönheitsbezogenes Selbstmanagement gemäß neoliberaler Postulate dient als altersübergreifender Grundsatz im Rahmen der Körpergestaltung. Grit Höppner spürt dem Verhältnis heutiger 60- bis 75-jähriger Frauen und Männer zum Thema "sich schön machen" im Alter in Österreich nach. Der Fokus liegt auf gesellschaftlichen Mechanismen, die menschliches Handeln entsprechend sozialer Normensysteme im Kontext neoliberaler Gouvernementalität lenken und kontrollieren. In der österreichischen Gesellschaft existiert eine Reihe solcher körperbezogener Regierungsmechanismen. Aus diesen - Doing Gender, Doing Bodyfication, Doing Age und Doing Beautyfication - resultieren soziale Zuschreibungen, die letztlich zu einer Reproduktion und Bestätigung gesellschaftlicher Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse führen. Das Buch richtet sich an Dozierende und Studierende der Sozialwissenschaften mit den Schwerpunkten Gender Studies, Körper- und Gesundheitssoziologie sowie an ExpertInnen und Interessierte im Bereich der Alter(n)sforschung
